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THE SCARLET LETTER
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
THIS ELECTRONIC EDITION WAS PREPARED AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FROM THE EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITION, 1906 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN LONDON & TORONTO: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. NEW YORK, E. P. DUTTON & CO.
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years' standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea-captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colours and shadows are marvelously reflected in his “Twice-Told Tales” and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. Even his college days at Bowdoin did not quite break through his acquired and inherited reserve; but beneath it all, his faculty of divining men and women was exercised with almost uncanny prescience and subtlety. “The Scarlet L . . .
										
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