The Scarlet Letter

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and Thomas Gainsborough. Hester Prynne comes out of a Boston jail with an infant and an embroidered letter she must wear for life, and the town waits to learn the father's name. Hawthorne wrote the book in a rush after losing his post at the Salem Custom House, and prefaced it with a sketch of that office and o...