Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Grades 11-12 | Lexile 1280
An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her vengeful husband--these are the three central characters in this classic novel of passion and convention in the Puritan world of 17th-century Boston. Hailed by Arnold Bennett as being "the one American literary work which comes as near to perfection as is granted a man to bring his achievements.