In 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts of 1642-1649, a woman conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair, then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
A secret medical experiment controls the plot.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 |
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The Scarlet Letter | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | Novel | |
| 1917 | American Fiction | P. F. Collier & Son | Omnibus | 1 | |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 83 |
| 1941 | The Best Known Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Literary Classics | Omnibus | 1 | |
| January 1945 |
|
The Scarlet Letter | Penguin Books | Novel | |
| 1968 |
|
La lettre écarlate | Marabout | Novel | |
| 1968 |
|
La lettre écarlate | Éditions Rencontre | Novel | 31 |
| 1980 |
|
The Scarlet Letter | Signet Classic / New American Library | Novel | 15 |
| June 1992 | The Scarlet Letter | Project Gutenberg | Novel | ||
| 2005 |
|
The Portable Hawthorne | Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 151 |
| December 2011 |
|
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2011 |
|
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Volume 3 | Leonaur Ltd | Collection | |
| December 2015 |
|
The Scarlet Letter | Penguin Books (US) | Novel | |3 |
| November 2020 |
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The Complete Harvard Classics | Moon Classics | Omnibus | |110.001 |