Walter Mosley delivers at last the compelling master work everyone’s been waiting for—a novel so intriguing, so soulful, so unstoppably dramatic that it will rank among the classic mysteries of our time. At the height of the riots that cripple LA in the summer of 1965, a white man is pulled from his car by a mob and escapes into a nearby apartment building. Soon afterward, a red-headed woman known as Little Scarlet is found dead in that apartment building—and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. The police ask Easy Rawlins to investigate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's transcendental novel concerning the triumph of the soul in the face of intolerance continues to be one of the most widely read works in the classroom today.
Scarlet is the color of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin...
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the early days of Puritan Boston Hester Prynne braves the stigma of adultery by wearing the
embroidered scarlet "A" on her clothing.
A somber and compelling tale of love, pride, and moral struggle, The Scarlet Letter is considered
Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork. A story of passion and atonement in Puritan New England,
Hawthorne's story grows out of a radical ambivalence to America's spiritual, intellectual, and
imaginative heritage.
