The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne • Related Edition: Graphic
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1850
Word Count 63,604
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1280L
- ATOS Reading Level: 11.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 716, 14 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Fiction
- Revenge--Fiction
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction
- Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775--Fiction
- Adultery
- Puritans--Fiction
- Married women--Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction
- Fiction | Classics
- Puritans
- Illegitimate children--Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Women immigrants--Fiction
- Clergy--Fiction
- Adultery--Fiction
- Women
- Puritans--Massachusetts--Fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Women--Massachusetts--Fiction
- Historical fiction
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