The Scarlet Letter
1850
Hawthorne's 1850 novel of Puritan Boston: Hester Prynne and the scarlet A, the minister Dimmesdale, the leech Chillingworth, and the child Pearl, opening with the Custom-House sketch of the author's Salem. The complete text with its preface.
- The Custom-House
- The Prison Door
- The Market-Place
- The Recognition
- The Interview
- Hester at Her Needle
- Pearl
- The Governor’s Hall
- The Elf-Child and the Minister
- The Leech
- The Leech and His Patient
- The Interior of a Heart
- The Minister’s Vigil
- Another View of Hester
- Hester and the Physician
- Hester and Pearl
- A Forest Walk
- The Pastor and His Parishioner
- A Flood of Sunshine
- The Child at the Brookside
- The Minister in a Maze
- The New England Holiday
- The Procession
- The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- Conclusion