The Scarlet LetterA retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel in which a seventeenth-century New England woman is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed. |
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The CustomHouseIntroductory to | 7 |
The PrisonDoor | 41 |
The MarketPlace | 43 |
Copyright | |
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