title: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Second Edition)  (Norton Critical Editions)
author:  Nathaniel Hawthorne 
description: Leland S. Person is Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Indiana University, Fort Wayne. His is the author of Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity, Aesthetic Headaches: Women and Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorn, and many articles on nineteenth-century American writers, especially Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Henry James, and James Fenimore Cooper. He recently coedited (with Robert K. Martin) a collection of essays, Roman Holidays: American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy.
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  # The Scarlet Letter
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  
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  EDITOR'S NOTE
  
  
  THE CUSTOM-HOUSE
  
  
  
  
  
  THE SCARLET LETTER
  
  
    
  I. THE PRISON DOOR
  
  
    
  II. THE MARKET-PLACE
  
  
    
  III. THE RECOGNITION
  
  
    
  IV. THE INTERVIEW
  
  
    
  V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
  
  
    
  VI. PEARL
  
  
    
  VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
  
  
    
  VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
  
  
    
  IX. THE LEECH
  
  
    
  X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
  
  
    
  XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
  
  
    
  XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
  
  
    
  XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
  
  
    
  XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
  
  
    
  XV. HESTER AND PEARL
  
  
    
  XVI. A FOREST WALK
  
  
    
  XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
  
  
    
  XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
  
  
    
  XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
  
  
    
  XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
  
  
    
  XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
  
  
    
  XXII. THE PROCESSION
  
  
    
  XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
  
  
    
  XXIV. CONCLUSION
  
  
  
      
  
  
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