The Scarlet Letter

“We dream in our waking moments and walk in our sleep.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester Prynne to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the mans identity Roger sets out to destroy his rival while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both. The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work today. It inspired numerous film television and stage adaptations. Critics have described it as a masterwork and novelist D. H. Lawrence called it a perfect work of the American imagination.