The She Rose Classics edition of The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne faces public humiliation when she's forced to wear the visible mark of an adulteress on her gown for an affair she engaged in. Meanwhile, her lover guiltily hides while her vengeful husband rages. Hawthorne's 1850 canonical work examines the cost of sin and repentance in the puritanical strictures of a society where freedom comes at a steep price.