The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
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Efter en strid mellem oberst Pyncheon og tømreren Matthew Maule bliver obersten fundet død i sit værelse og kort efter bliver Maule henrettet som troldkarl. Siden da har familien Pyncheon været forbandet og den gamle frk. Hepzibah sidder flere år efter alene i familiens store gamle hus. Folk er bange for hende, og da hun beslutter sig for at åbne en skillingsbutik, er folk mere nysgerrige end begejstrede. Så dukker den unge og ubekymrede Phoebe op, og tingene tager en drejning for Hepzibah, men under overfladen lurer forbandelsen stadig. Da Hepzibahs bror kommer hjem, begynder dommer Pyncheon også at vise sit ansigt i huset igen, og gamle hemmeligheder dukker op til overfladen. Hemmeligheder om forbandelser, hekseri, falske anklager og hemmeligheder om mord. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) er en af den amerikanske litteraturs ’founding fathers’, læst og elsket af samtidige forfattere som Edgar Allan Poe og Herman Melville og kanoniseret af eftertiden side om side med disse. Hans
The House of the Seven Gables
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first edition of the novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed and Fields. * Robert S. Levine’s insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded explanatory footnotes and note on the text and annotations. * A generous selection of carefully chosen primary materials—three of them new to the Second Edition—intended to provide readers with essential backgrounds on the novel’s major themes. * An extensive selection of critical responses to The House of the Seven Gables from the time of its publication to the present day, including eight new to the Second Edition. A chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life and work and a selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the
The House of the Seven Gables
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 ghosts of the sinful dead who still live within the terrifying shadows of the imposing house. A truly ingenious blend of the supernatural and the romantic, Hawthorne weaves a gothic tale that threatens to impale the family and the local townsfolk with its destructive power. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new biography and glossary of
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Boston, mid-seventeenth century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious Puritan neighbors. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and bearing a bright scarlet letter 'A' embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child in this harsh and unforgiving community. When her missing spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed identity, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation between the truly moral and the merely religious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance
The Scarlet Letter (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
'There could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination.' -D. H. Lawrence In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea. She refuses to name the father and is condemned to wear a scarlet 'A' and live as an outcast. As she transforms the badge of shame into a symbol of freedom, Hawthorne's dramatic masterpiece envisions an authentic relation between the sexes-and a different way of imagining love, sin, and redemption-that can form the basis for America's radical project of a true democracy.
L2:Scarlet Letter Book & MP3 Pack
L2:Scarlet Letter Book & MP3 Pack
Myths And Mythology Collection
This attractive paperback box set brings together 5 collections of spell-binding mythological tales from a variety of cultures, including Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic and Native American.From the Greek gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, to the mighty heroes of Norse mythology, to the mysterious druids of the ancient Celts, this book offers an enchanting journey through the world's most intriguing mythological traditions. These are beautifully retold by acclaimed authors and folklorists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Squire, who breath new life into these ancient tales. This collection contains: • Classical Mythology • Celtic Mythology • Norse Mythology • Native American Myths & Legends • Myths & Legends from Around the WorldThese books feature striking contemporary cover designs and fit neatly together into an attractive slipcase. This box set makes a perfect gift or collectible for any mythology lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classic Collections series features delightful, high-quality paperback box sets of classic works of literature with striking contemporary cover designs.
The Blithedale Romance
A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves personally unrewarding and economically disastrous. Based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community, The Blithedale Romance is especially timely in light of renewed interest in self-sufficient and other cooperative societies.
The Blithedale Romance
Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing...
Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
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¿...
Scarlet Letter
Part of the Chiltern Classics range The Scarlet Letter 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...
Manga Classics Scarlet Letter (New Printing)
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 M...
Scarlet Letter
Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequ...
The Marble Faun
This novel tells the story of Donarells, an Italian Count bearing an uncanny resemblance to the faun of Praxiteles, the sculptor Kenyon and two young art students, Miriam and Hilda. The author also wrote "Scarlet Letter".
House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories
Described by Herman Melville as being "as deep as Dante", 'Young Goodman Brown' is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over the reality of events that Hawthorne was...
A Wonder Book
Retells six classic Greek myths: The gorgon's head; The golden touch; The paradise of children; The three golden apples; The miraculous pitcher; and The chimaera.
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of revenge and redemption in Puritan America
Hawthorne's Short Stories
Hawthorne's Short Stories
Scarlet Letter
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...
Twice-Told Tales
Hawthorne's famous collection of tales - published originally in magazines and newspapers and then in two separate editions during Hawthorne's lifetime - includes many of his best stories, from 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Wakefield' to 'Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe' and 'The Lily's Quest.' Animated, as Rosemary Mahoney writes in the Introduction, by 'the struggle between chaos and order, animal impulse and the specter of eternal damnation, purity of action against the power of temptation and the fear of isolation,' these stories - like all of Hawthorne's work - remain powerfully contemporary.
Scarlet Letter
Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity...
