Nathaniel Hawthorne
141) The scarlet letter
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"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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"The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic novel set in Puritanical Boston in the mid-17th century. It tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who is publicly shamed and ostracized for having a child out of wedlock. Hester is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing to signify her status as an adulterer. As she struggles to survive in a Puritanical society that is unforgiving of her sins, Hester is eventually able to redeem...
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“The House of the Seven Gables” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic novel which follows the fates of a New England family and their ancestral home. Inspired by a house in Salem Massachusetts which had belonged to the ancestors of Nathaniel Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials, “The House of the Seven Gables” is the story of Hepzibah Pyncheon and her brother Clifford who has recently been released from prison after serving...
144) Collected novels
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Library of America volume 10
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℗♭1983
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Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance"...
146) Angel and apostle
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Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," tries to make sense of her life and her self while a young girl in 1649 Boston.
147) The red letter plays
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Two plays expanding on Hawthorne's classic novel "The scarlet letter." In the blood: Hester La Negrita, an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children, practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up." Fucking A: Hester Smith works the only job available to her, as an abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son.
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Master storyteller Jim Weiss brings you suspense, laughter, and plenty of plot twists. Spooky, not scary! An ancient ghost tries to frighten a new family away from his castle. A scientist's potion reveals old secrets. And a street magician has one last trick up his sleeve. Beloved storyteller Jim Weiss retells these spooky tales from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, and Oscar Wilde.
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A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book — on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe, on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip.
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Great Britain and Ireland:
London
Cathedrals and Abbeys
Castles...
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This is science fiction at its literate best with every story a little gem.
A clock that reverses the order of history, a potion that prolongs youth, a machine that disintegrates matter, the prospect of the earth burning to a crisp from the heat of the sun and the effects of the absence of gravity; all this and more can be found in this superb collection of unabridged classic science fiction stories. Read by Nicky Henson
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The...
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Meet legendary heroes, powerful goddesses and vengeful monsters in this beautiful hardback collection of more than 20 epic tales from Greek and Roman mythology, featuring lavish full-color illustrations throughout.
The myths and legends of the ancient world are vividly told here by master storytellers of the 19th century, Thomas Bulfinch and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Discover how Theseus defeated the minotaur, why the witch Circe turned men into swine...
153) The Short Story
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Mankind has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them. The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. As far back as written records go we find stories; even before that time, they were handed down from remote generations by oral tradition. The wandering minstrel followed a very ancient profession. Before him was his prototype-the man with the gift of telling stories over...
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This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and...
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This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...