A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys

About the author

Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter sets a public punishment in a Puritan town and then studies the private lives around it. Guilt, in this novel, is as much a community habit as a feeling. More of this shelf for Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Where to read it

• Open Library work
• Read or borrow on Open Library
• Project Gutenberg page

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More by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mosses from an old manse · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Tanglewood Tales · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Blithedale Romance · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Fanshawe · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• The Red One · Jack London
• The Phoenix and the Carpet · E. (Edith) Nesbit
• The Story of the Amulet · E. (Edith) Nesbit
• A House of Pomegranates · Oscar Wilde
• The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · Oscar Wilde