Nathaniel Hawthorne

An 1882 woodcut, "At the Church Door," showing a Puritan Thanksgiving in...

Scene from the film The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish and Lars...

The door of Boston's prison-house

The Custom-House

Hester carrying her child and wearing a scarlet letter "A"

The scarlet letter "A"

Hester recognizes her husband from the scaffold

Hester and Roger Chillingworth

Hester and her child

Pearl hurls stones at the other Puritan children

Pearl and Hester are accosted by children

At the Governor's hall

Roger Chillingworth and Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale

Hester and Pearl outside the window where Roger Chillingworth and...

Chillingworth comes upon the minister asleep in a chair

The sky is lit up by a giant meteor

Hester and Chillingworth

Townspeople gather for holiday events

Dimmesdale sinks to the scaffold

An embroidered piece of red cloth in the shape of the letter 'A' is found

The grave of Hester and Dimmesdale