This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her adultery. She refuses to name her lover, and he too keeps his silence, but with a terrible cost. The tale is prefaced with an account of the Salem Custom-house where Nathaniel Hawthorne was working when he began writing The Scarlet Letter.

Latest episodes of the podcast Scarlet Letter (version 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• 00a - The Custom-House—Introductory to 'The Scarlet Letter'
• 00b - The Custom-House—Continued
• 00c - The Custom-House—Concluded
• 01 - The Prison-Door
• 02 - The Market-Place
• 03 - The Recognition
• 04 - The Interview
• 05 - Hester at Her Needle
• 06 - Pearl
• 07 - The Governor's Hall
• 08 - The Elf-Child and the Minister
• 09 - The Leech
• 10 - The Leech and His Patient
• 11 - The Interior of a Heart
• 12 - The Minister's Vigil
• 13 - Another View of Hester
• 14 - Hester and the Physician
• 15 - Hester and Pearl
• 16 - A Forest Walk
• 17 - The Pastor and His Parishioner
• 18 - A Flood of Sunshine
• 19 - The Child at the Brook-side
• 20 - The Minister in a Maze
• 21 - The New England Holiday
• 22 - The Procession
• 23 - The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
• 24 - Conclusion