The Scarlet Letter | Related Titles

Many of Hawthorne's novels and stories share some affinities with The Scarlet Letter. A number of his short stories, notably "The Minister's Black Veil," "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and "Ethan Brand," contain characters and incidents distinctly reminiscent of those in this novel. These and many others, including "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" and "Young Goodman Brown," deal with similar themes and rely on the history of Puritan New England as background. The House of the Seven Gables (1851), a novel written by Hawthorne immediately after he published The...

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