Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
Hester Prynne, her daughter Pearl and the Reverend Dimmesdale in Puritan Boston. Read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne page by page and explore its…
It is a little remarkable, that—though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends—an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader—inexcusably, and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine—with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now—because, beyond my deserts, I was happy enough to find a listener or two on the former…
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