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Book Review of The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Classic American fiction based in 17th century Puritan community in New England. This edition has a foreward by Leo Marx, signet classic binding. First read this in high school, very crisp and readable compared to other "classics", language is fairly modern. Try this again if you haven't read it recently!