Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA Grandpa used to say it

Grandpa used to say it all the time: 'books have tremendous power'

the bodies start to stack up

In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972

the paranoia

knowing gets mysterious

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA Grandpa used to say itThe classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.