Readers' Review
This book-club-style discussion is held once a month, usually on the third Wednesday. A panel of authors, professors, and book-lovers joins Diane to talk about their reactions to the month's selection.
Readers' Review: Mar. 31, 2010
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The "Scarlet Letter" tells the story of a passionate young woman; her cowardly lover; and her aging, vengeful husband. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote it in the nineteenth century but set it in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston. Its depiction of the struggle between heart and mind remains timeless.
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