What is The Scarlet Letter?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Title page for The Scarlet Letter.jpg|thumb|Title page, 1850]] '''''The Scarlet Letter''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]. It was published on March 16, 1850 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields of [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. It is set in [[Puritan]] [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] in the 1640s. It is about [[adultery]], its punishment, and aftermath. It has been adapted to [[movie]]s. {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarlet Letter}} [[Category:1640s]] [[Category:1850]] [[Category:1850s books]] [[Category:19th-century American novels]] [[Category:Adultery in fiction]] [[Category:Boston in fiction]] [[Category:Fiction set in the past]] [[Category:Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne]]