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The Scarlet Letter is that novel. The novel is set in seventeenth-century Boston, a city governed by strict Puritan law. The story begins as Hester Prynne, the novel's protagonist, is led out of a prison carrying an infant, named Pearl, in her arms. A bright red "A" is embroidered on her chest.
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 晧四郎 木畑
- 1850
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