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302 pages • first pub 1850 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780192833716
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 16 March 1850
Description
When an elderly English scholar discovers his young wife in the pillory, cradling an illegitimate child and wearing a scarlet A for Adulteress, he disguises himself as a doctor and begins a cruel and destructive search for the father of the child....
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302 pages • first pub 1850 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780192833716
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 16 March 1850
Description
When an elderly English scholar discovers his young wife in the pillory, cradling an illegitimate child and wearing a scarlet A for Adulteress, he disguises himself as a doctor and begins a cruel and destructive search for the father of the child....