The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (also rec’d by John Irving & Patti Smith )
Buy on AmazonHester Prynne remains the grandest, most poignant, and most enduring female character in American literature. She is our truest feminist in that she will not yield to the Puritan morality that condemns her and her heroic sexuality.
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"Hester Prynne remains the grandest, most poignant, and most enduring female character in American literature. She is our truest feminist in that she will not yield to the Puritan morality that condemns her and her heroic sexuality."
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