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This book, from one of American literatures greatest authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, offers a selection of Greek myths, retold to make them more accessible for children. It includes the Gorgons Head, the Three Golden Apples and the Paradise of Children, among others. This edition, leatherbound and featuring illustrations by Walter Crane,...

Taking up his place at the University of Padua, the youthful Giovanni Guasconti is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty. In it abides a young woman, perhaps the most beautiful Giovanni has ever seen. Yet as he looks out from an upstairs window, he soon...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss' Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale...

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...

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan...

In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man´, had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From...

The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate baby and wearing a scarlet letter 'A' for Adulteress embroidered on her dress. While her husband embarks on a vengeful hunt for the child's father, Hester refuses to name him...

Donatello, giovane italiano gioioso e primitivo straordinariamente somigliante al Fauno di Prassitele, in un empito di furore uccide l´oscuro persecutore della bella artista Miriam di cui perdutamente innamorato. Da questa ´´caduta´´ inizier un doloroso percorso di rimorso e redenzione che lo trasformer in un uomo nuovo....

This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume.

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne´s concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgraced and ostracized, Hester Prynne draws on her inner strength and certainty of spirit...

Discover how a midnight ritual transforms the life of a young Puritan in

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne gives birth to an illegitimate child and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter

This selection of twenty of Hawthorne´s tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume. This book is intended for general; students of 19th century American literature; short story college courses.

´any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended´ The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the...