The Marble Faun (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

The Marble Faun (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun,' Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlet Letter - (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Leather / fine binding)

In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Hester Prynne stands defiantly on a scaffold before hostile Puritans in seventeenth-century Boston, Massachusetts. The baby in her arms and the bright scarlet letter 'A' on her gown are evidence and punishment for the shame she has brought on her religious neighbors. Will Hester continue to conceal

The Scarlet Letter: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

An iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. Other titles in the couture-inspired collection include Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice.Ruben Toledo's breathtaking drawings have appeared in such

The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

A mysterious tale of crime, witchcraft and the supernatural. The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, reeking of past sins and malevolent threats. The Pyncheon family that lives there has inherited the curse of centuries-old accusations of witchcraft, and is haunted by the

L1: House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Classic / American English The House of the Seven Gables is the home of an important family: the Pyncheons. They have the house and a lot of land, but no money and many problems. Is there a curse on the family? This is a story about money, murder, and

The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in

The Scarlet Letter (Legend Classics) (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.The Scarlet Letter is a literary landmark, chronicling Hester Prynne's affair and the punishment she receives from the Puritan Colony in

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

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

The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

FThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their

L2: Scarlett Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Classic / American English Boston in the 1600s is a small town, but a large crowd waits for Hester Prynne outside the prison. She carries a baby in her arms and the scarlet letter A is on her dress. A is for adulteress. Who is the father of her baby? Nobody knows and Hester will not

Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback / softback)

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Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback / softback)

A tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public

Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science (Reyes Xavier Aldana)(Paperback)

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as

Tanglewood Tales (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

One of 19th-century America's greatest authors recounts timeless tales from Greek mythology in this delightful partner to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Nathaniel Hawthorne's evocative interpretations of traditional stories about heroes, sorceresses, kings, and other legendary characters provide

Stories of Art & Artists (Secker Tesdell Diana)(Pevná vazba)

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful' and Albert Camus's 'The Artist at Work' to Bernard Malamud's 'Rembrandt's Hat' and Aimee Bender's 'The Color Master,' the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Pevná vazba)

'A perfect work of the American imagination.'-D.H Lawrence 'The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader's interest never flags for a moment...Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to you. He

Šarlátové písmeno - Nathaniel Hawthorne

V Novom Anglicku 17. storočia sa medzi prvými kolonizátormi odohráva dráma plná citov. Na príbehu Hester Prynnovej autor majstrovsky zobrazuje dôsledky jediného hriechu z vášne pre troch ľudí – nešťastnú Hester, jej milenca a jej zákonného manžela. Prísne zákony puritánskeho

Šarlatové písmeno - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alena Dvořáková

Klasický román americké literatury vypráví o ženě, která se prohřešila proti zákonům morálky tím, že odmítla prozradit otce svého nemanželského dítěte. Poutavý příběh o vině a trestu, diktovaný úzkoprsou puritánskou morálkou, je poznamenán temným ovzduším hrůzy,

Šarlatové písmeno - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alena Dvořáková - e-kniha

eBook: Klasický román americké literatury vypráví o ženě, která se prohřešila proti zákonům morálky tím, že odmítla prozradit otce svého nemanželského dítěte. Poutavý příběh o vině a trestu, diktovaný úzkoprsou puritánskou morálkou, je poznamenán temným ovzduším

Taking Responsibility (Branden Nathaniel)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, Taking Responsibility is Nathaniel Branden's guide to self-reliance and the accountable life, including self-realization through that self-reliance, offering a vision of society transformed by a new ethical individualism. The bestselling author of The Psychology of