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This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt,punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England.The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence,but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax
INTRODUCTORY The Custom-House
ONE The Prison-Door
TWO The Market-Place
THREE The Recognition
FOUR The Interview
FIVE Hester at Her Needle
SIX Pearl
SEVEN The Governor's Hall
EIGHT The Elf-Child and the Minister
NINE The Leech
TEN The Leech and His "Patient
ELEVEN The Interior of a Heart
TWELVE The Minister's Vigil
THIRTEEN Another View of Hester
FOURTEEN Hester and the Physician
FIFTEEN Hester and Pearl
SIXTEEN A Forest Walk
The Pastor and His Parishioner
EIGHTEEN A Flood of Sunshine
NINETEEN The Child at the Brook-Side
TWENTY The Minister in a Maze
TWENTY-ONE The New England Holiday
TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-THREE The Procession
TWENTY-THREE The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
TWENTY-FOUR Conclusion
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