The Scarlet Letter

The most famous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne and his magnum opus. It is a story of forbidden love that reveals the customs and way of life of the Puritan society of New England in the mid-17th century. The plot of "The Scarlet Letter" is rightly considered one of the most dramatic and tense in literature.
Young Englishwoman Hester married an older doctor and moved to Boston with him. Soon, her husband went on a journey and did not send news of himself for many years. Left alone, Hester could not resist her feelings for the young priest... and had a child by him. For her love, she became an outcast, who would be forced to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her dress for the rest of her life — adulteress.
A narrative about a weak woman who bears her "shame" with her head held high, and her endless strength of spirit.