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Book Description:

The year is 1642. The place is Boston, a small Puritan settlement. Before the town jail, a group of somber people wait with stern expressions on their faces. They are expecting Hester Prynne, a woman convicted of adultery and condemned to stand on the village scaffold for three hours of public shame.
Hester appears, carrying an infant in her arms, and wearing a scarlet letter A (for Adulteress) as a badge of her disgrace. A careful look at Hester's face, however, shows she is not contrite, as the crowd expects, but rather quietly defiant. Three hours on the scaffold do little to change her attitude. When pressed by the magistrates to repent of her crime and name her lover to the authorities, Hester answers with a silence that echoes through the market-place. She scorns her judges. More... (© PinkMonkey.com)

Booknotes about The Scarlet Letter:

• Barron's Booknote by Sara Sheldon
  http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/scarlet.asp
  
  
• ClassicNote by J. Nicholas Smith
  http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/thescarletletter/
  
  
• NovelGuide
  http://www.novelguide.com/thescarletletter/index.html
  
  
• PinkMonkey® Literature Note by Diane Sauder
  http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmScarletLetter01.asp
  
  
• SparkNote by Jia-Rui Chong
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/