Hawthorne-The Scarlet LetterFirst published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her

It also gave her pride in her family's history: the bravery of her great-grandmother who as a child narrowly escaped being murdered during the 1857 Indian Mutiny

It uses the Compact format: an ultra-thin setting of the Bible bound in attractive burgundy and red soft-tone

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'One of my all-time favourites' ERIN MORGENSTERN

democracy in India has been dubbed ‘miraculous’ by the world’s media

clever debut

Yeongsuh is forced to make a decision she’d been putting off

my stomach does a full-on bungee jump

for a second example

Do my decisions matter

as the new millennium approaches

once again proving that it has the power to shape the financial rules of our world