{"id":28518,"date":"2025-07-01T12:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28518"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:54:07","slug":"is-the-scarlett-letter-the-best-novel-ever-written-in-boston-and-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/07\/01\/is-the-scarlett-letter-the-best-novel-ever-written-in-boston-and-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the &#8220;Scarlett Letter&#8221; the best novel ever written in Boston and North America?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-1024x1001.jpg\" alt=\"Is the &quot;Scarlett Letter&quot; the best novel ever written in Boston and North America?\" class=\"wp-image-28517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-1024x1001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-1536x1502.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_1761-1-2048x2003.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Is the &#8220;Scarlett Letter&#8221; the best novel ever written in Boston and North America?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s The Scarlet Letter (O&#8217;Neill Library, PS 1868 .A1) is certainly a classic worthy of reading and re-reading! I hesitate to apply labels like &#8220;best&#8221; to any art because there isn&#8217;t objective criteria for making that definitive a claim, but it&#8217;s certainly in a class of literature for which superlatives are regularly used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s The Scarlet Letter (O&#8217;Neill Library, PS 1868 .A1) is certainly a classic worthy of reading and re-reading! I hesitate to apply labels like &#8220;best&#8221; to any art because there isn&#8217;t objective criteria for making that definitive a claim, but it&#8217;s certainly in a class of literature for which superlatives are regularly used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28522,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28518\/revisions\/28522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}