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Scarlet letter   /skˈɑrlət lˈɛtər/   Listen
Scarlet letter

noun
1.
The letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it.





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"Scarlet letter" Quotes from Famous Books



... townspeople had been opposed to him. Again he was in money difficulties from which he was released by a donation from his loyal friends. The leisure thus made possible was devoted to the production of his greatest work, a novel, "The Scarlet Letter," which is a study in the darker side of Puritanism. Its publication in April, 1850, brought him fame. In the same year he moved to the ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... portrayed. And if one had to pick out three of his books, as the best worth reading, they would be "The Professor," "Elsie Venner," and "The Guardian Angel." They have not the impeccable art and distinction of "The House of the Seven Gables" and "The Scarlet Letter," but they combine fantasy with living human interest, and with humour. With Sir Thomas Browne, and Dr. John Brown, and—may we not add Dr. Weir Mitchell?—Dr. Holmes excellently represents the physician ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang


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