The Scarlet Letter

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years' standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass. , on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea-captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colours and shadows are marvelously re