The Scarlet Letter

• Chapter Overviews

• Introduction to The Scarlet Letter

• "The Custom House" - summary and analysis

• Brief biography on Nathaniel Hawthorne from biography.com

• The Great Books Podcast - Episode 118: The Scarlet Letter

• Sacred & Profane Love Podcast - Episode 54: Karen Swallow Prior on The Scarlet Letter

CRITICISM:

• Bloom, Harold. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. Warner, 2002, pp. 300-304.

• Foster, Thomas C. "The Allegory Man Cometh: The Scarlet Letter."Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America. Harper, 2011, pp. 27-42.

• Mukherjee, Bharati. "The Scarlet Letter." A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, Belknap, 2009, pp. 268-273.

• Weinstein, Arnold. "The Wild Child." Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books. Random House, 2011, pp. 192-195.

• "The Birthmark"

• "The Minister's Black Veil"

• "Young Goodman Brown"