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With an Afterword by Jonty Claypole The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years´ separation fromhis wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover´s identity and is condemned to wear a scarlet letter ´A´ sewn on to her clothes. Roger resolves to discover the man´s identity, and over the next seven years the participants in the love triangle suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice and humiliation, before moving towards redemption at the novel´s climax.

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