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 of the man who lost it. The scaffold scenes fall at the beginning, the middle and the end; between them the guilt moves from the woman who is punished to the man who is not.
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La lettre écarlate :
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