Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author
Series
Publisher
Grolier
Pub. Date
1978
Description
A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its...
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
1983
Description
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"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge comes to life in Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter. Faithfully adapted by Crystal Chan from the original novel, this new edition features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee (Manga Classics: Les Miserables) which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into the Nathaniel Hawthorne's tragic saga of Puritan America.
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"'The oldest and strangest emotion of mankind is fear.' So wrote horror master H.P. Lovecraft in his landmark essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature, ' a survey that for nearly a century has served as a required reading list for tales of the supernatural. H.P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories collects in one volume more than thirty stories that Lovecraft singled out in his essay as the best horror tales of all time"--Front jacket cover....