The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, singled out by Rand as an example of Romantic fiction.

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Ayn Rand Novelist and philosopher

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What Is Romanticism? — The Romantic Manifesto (first collected edition, 1969); undated ARI excerpt

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Ayn Rand Institute · 1969 · accessed 2026-10-01

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ARI republishes Rand’s own essay from The Romantic Manifesto, page 107; she singles out Quo Vadis and The Scarlet Letter as individual top-rank Romantic novels. 1969 is the first collected edition year; the linked ARI Campus republication is undated; this does not assert the essay’s original periodical date.

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