Contested
The Scarlet Letter
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA woman wears a badge of shame sewn by the very people most implicated in her disgrace, and outlasts every one of their reputations by simple, stubborn dignity. The letter never quite means what the town insists it means. Hawthorne understood that public punishment mostly punishes the audience’s own conscience.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- On the Contested shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #33. In the public domain in the United States.