The release date for the English version of 'The Scarlet Letter' by
Nathaniel Hawthorne is Dec 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
It is based in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and spans the years 1642 to 1649. Hester Prynne, the protagonist, has an affair, becomes pregnant through it, and she refuses to confess who her lover is. Her penalty for her wrongdoing and her secret is to be publicly shamed and to wear the scarlet letter A (for adultery) on her garments. She battles to start again with a life of contrition and honor. Hawthorne examines topics of legalism, sin, and guilt throughout the whole work.