
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 somber life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colors and shadows are marvelously reflected in his _Twice-Told Tales_ and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. Even his college days at Bowdoin did not quite break through his acquired and inherited reserve; but beneath it all, his faculty of divining men and women was exercised with almost uncanny prescience and subtlety. _The Scarlet Letter, _ which explains as much of this unique imaginative art, as is to be gathered from reading his highest single achievement, yet needs to be ranged with his other writings, early and late, to have its last effect. In the year that saw it published, he began _The House of the Seven Gables, _ a later romance or prose-tragedy of the Puritan-American community as he had himself known it -- defrauded of art and the joy of life, "starving for symbols" as Emerson has it. Nathaniel Hawthorne died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, on May 18th, 1864.
- The Custom-House
- Introduction to "The Scarlet Letter "
- I. The Prison Door
- II. The Market-Place
- III. The Recognition
- IV. The Interview
- V. Hester at Her Needle
- VI. Pearl
- VII. The Governor’s Hall
- VIII. The Elf-Child and The Minister
- IX. The Leech
- X. The Leech and his Patient
- XI. The Interior of a Heart
- XII. The Minister’s Vigil
- XIII. Another View of Hester
- XIV. Hester and the Physician
- XV. Hester and Pearl
- XVI. A Forest Walk
- XVII. The Pastor and his Parishioner
- XVIII. A Flood of Sunshine
- XIX. The Child at the Brookside
- XX. The Minister in a Maze
- XXI. The New England Holiday
- XXII. The Procession
- XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- XXIV. Conclusion
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