Includes biographical and critical studies.

The prison-door--The market place--The recognition--The interview--Hester at her needle--pearl--The governor's hall-- The elf-child and the minister-- The leech-- The leech and his patient--The interior of a heart--The minister's vigil--Another view of hester-- Hester and the physician-- Hester and pearl--A forest walk-- The pastor and his parishioner-- A flood of sunshine-- The child at the brook-side-- The minister in a maze-- The new England holiday-- The procession-- The revelation

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