Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town …

The House of the Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …

Twice Told Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the s…

Tanglewood Tales

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All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection featur…

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

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A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: …

Mosses From An Old Manse

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…

The Blithedale Romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

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The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

True Stories from History and Biography

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In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…

The Marble Faun

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The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …

Rappaccini's Daughter

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The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains. Consists of: The G…

Our Old Home

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. …

Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

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Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

In Colonial Days

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A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…

The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…