The Scarlet Letter

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This edition of The Scarlet Letter includes a Preface, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.

About the Author(s)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Excerpt

Scarlet Letter, The
1The Prison DoorA THRONG OF BEARDED MEN, IN SAD-COLORED GARMENTS and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes.The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

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