Chapter 02THE MARKET-PLACETHE grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied b...
Chapter 03 THE RECOGNITIONFROM this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation, the wearer of the scarlet letter wa...
Chapter 04THE INTERVIEWAFTER her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfuln...
Chapter 05 HESTER AT HER NEEDLEHESTER PRYNNE'S term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the...
Chapter 06PEARLWE have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providen...
Chapter 07THE GOVERNOR'S HALLHESTER PRYNNE went, one day, to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves, which she had fringed and ...
Chapter 08THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTERGOVERNOR BELLINGHAM, in a loose gown and easy cap- much as elderly gentlemen loved to endue themselves with, i...
Chapter 09THE LEECHUNDER the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolv...
Chapter 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENTOLD Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but...
Chapter 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEARTAFTER the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the sa...