Chapter 1. The prison-door -- Chapter 2. The market place -- Chapter 3. The recognition -- Chapter 4. The interview -- Chapter 5. Hester at her needle -- Chapter 6. Pearl -- Chapter 7. The governor's hall -- Chapter 8. The elf-child and the minister -- Chapter 9. The leech -- Chapter 10. The leech and his patient -- Chapter 11. The interior and a heart -- Chapter 12. The minister's vigil -- Chapter 13. Another view of Hester -- Chapter 14. Hester and the physician -- Chapter 15. Hester and Pearl -- Chapter 16. A forest walk -- Chapter 17. The pastor and his parishioner -- Chapter 18. A flood of sunshine -- Chapter 19. The child at the brook-side -- Chapter 20. The minister in a maze -- Chapter 21. The new england holiday -- Chapter 22. The procession -- Chapter 23. The revelation of the scarlet letter.

A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle. Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.