The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1850. The story takes place in the Puritan Boston of the mid 17thcentury and revolves around a woman named Hester Prynne, who conceived a child out of wedlock and was forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" (Adulteress), which condemns her to a life of struggle and humiliation.
