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Author: Hawthorne
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This is based on a love tragedy that occurred in Boston between 1642 and 1649: a young and beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, holding a three-month-old daughter—Pearl—in her arms, standing on the scaffold, waiting for the theocratic Calvinist (i.e., Puritan) regime to announce her judgment in public. So, who is the woman on trial? What crime has she committed?