An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover and her aging, vengeful husband - these are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh, Puritan world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving, rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of shame and redemption reveals Hawthorne's concern with the New England past and its influence on American attitudes. From his dramatic illumination of the struggles between mind and heart, dogma and self-reliance, he fashioned one of the masterpieces of fiction. "The one American literary work which comes as near to perfection as is granted a man to bring his achievements."
-Arnold Bennett

Sending to love2read4fun in SC, as part of www.BookRelay.com's "RABCK II [or is it III?]" relay category.

One more to check off your "banned books" list!

Thanks BruceAlexander for knocking this one of my banned/challenged books list!