Red characters

Author: Hawthorne
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book is set in 17th-century New England and tells a love tragedy that occurs in Boston. The protagonist, Hester, falls in love with the local minister and gives birth to a daughter named Pearl. This is unacceptable to the Puritans, and she is sentenced to wear the letter A in red for life. Her lover, filled with remorse, dies of exhaustion while exposing his guilt on the scaffold. The husband, who seeks revenge, also dies a year later...