The Scarlet Letter (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

<p class=ql-align-justify>In colonial New England beautiful young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea. She refuses to name the father and is condemned to wear a scarlet A and live as an outcast. As she transforms the badge of shame into a symbol of freedom Hawthorne's dramatic masterpiece envisions an authentic relation between the sexes-and a different way of imagining love sin and redemption-that can form the basis for America's radical project of a true democracy.</p>