The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter By Nathanial Hawthorne is an 1850 work of fiction from a historical setting. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity while suffering public shame and humility.