The 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.