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The Scarlet Letter

Drama, Romance, History · 1979

Last aired: S1 E4, Episode 4 · 1979-03-24

An epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society.