Tooth of the CovenantBest known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great great grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand alone book in The American Novels series, we witness Hawthorne writing a tale entitled Tooth of the Covenant, in which he sends his fictional surrogate, Isaac Page, back to the year 1692 to save Bridget Bishop, the first