Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: CD.FS.E CD.DR Hawt / College 1a - Fremdsprachen-Bibliothek	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

"The scarlet letter", published in 1850, is a classic American prose romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece, set in Puritan New England in the 17th century.

The story opens in puritan Boston, a settlement only fifteen or twenty years old. A young woman stands on a scaffold clasping a three-month-old baby. As a married woman with a missing husband and a new baby, Hester Prynne could have been sentenced to death for the crime of adultery. Instead she is condemned to always wear the letter A as a badge of her shame. As she stands there, she sees her long-missing husband, who has been held captive by Indians. While the town chorus is murmuringagainst her and her old and unattractive husband stares silently at her, the young and handsome clergyman publicy demands the name of her partner in crime - while desperately praying that she won't reveal him.