Tanglewood Tales

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

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More by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The snow-image: a childish miracle · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Scarlet Letter (1850) · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The House of the Seven Gables · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mosses from an old manse · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Blithedale Romance · Nathaniel Hawthorne

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