288 pages | paperback |

Nathaniel Hawthornes masterpiece, an iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts, has long been considered one of the greatest American novels.

The story of Hester Prynnefound out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husbandpossesses a reality heightened by Hawthornes sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine.The Scarlet Letterrightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, a work of moral force and narrative power that announced a literature equal to any in the world.

• AMERICAN CLASSIC: A bestseller since its publication in 1850,The Scarlet Letteris still a towering icon of American literature.
• ACADEMIC COURSE ADOPTION: A perennial in high school and college classes.
• SALES RECORD: Sells strongly in Everyman’s, Modern Library, and Bantam editions.
• EYE-CATCHING PACKAGE: This title will join our line of Vintage Classics, with their striking jacket designs.