The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne
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Hawthorne · 28 chapters
Quotes from this book
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Chapters
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- PrefaceSample
- L ETTER
- D ECAPITATED
- THE SCARLET LETTER
- Preface
- L ETTER
- 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