The Scarlet Letter
Opens with a forty-page essay about a custom-house. Push through; the novel behind it is merciless.
- Listening time
- about 8 h 54 min
- Length
- 83,144 words
- First published
- 1850
- Public domain
- the author died in 1864
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 490 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Long Haul
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Free. Open the app, go to Discover, find the title and tap Get. It narrates on your device in the voice you choose, your own included. View the edition at standardebooks.org.
How it begins.
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The Scarlet Letter · Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
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