TY - BOOK AU - Hawthorne,Nathaniel TI - The scarlet letter T2 - Bantam classic SN - 0553210092 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Bantam Dell KW - Adultery KW - Fiction KW - Clergy KW - Illegitimate children KW - Married women KW - Puritans KW - Revenge KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Women immigrants KW - Boston (Mass.) KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 N2 - Hester Prynne, a young woman in seventeenth century Massachusetts, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she committed ER -