Scarlet Letter

"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English.

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Hester Prynne is a young wife who has sinned in the eyes of her society. In the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England, she endures a harsh punishment. Hester has to draw on her inner strength of spirit. She is one of the finest heroines of American fiction. This American classic is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt and punishment.