Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA She first came to court

She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen

With extraordinary skill and accuracy

the bodies start to stack up

A portrait of work [and] a picture of a sensibility'

He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter [2016] paperback ZCURA She first came to courtThe classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.