Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the...
Historia de la vergüenza y castigo público de una joven llamada Hester Prynne. La obra ambientada a mediados del siglo XVII en Boston, nos narra la azrosa vida de Hester, embarazada y acusada de adulterio marcada con una A en su cuerpo ...
The Scarlet Letter is a historical fiction novel about female agency and a womanâs strength, examining social stigma, shame, and fifteenth-century gender roles.
In Tanglewood Tales (written as a follow-up to A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys), Nathaniel Hawthorne presents six more stories adapted from Greek mythology: The Minotaur (Theseus and the Minotaur), The Pygmies (Hercules and Antaeus the giant), The Drag...
Set in the mid-17th century in New England, The Scarlet Letter follows married Hester Prynne after she conceives a daughter through an affair. Societal standards of puritan New England force her to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothes as a constant...
Originally published in 1853, author Nathaniel Hawthorne delivers a vibrant selection of mythological tales inspired by some of the most popular figures in Greek lore. Tanglewood Tales is filled with whimsical characters and their fantastical stories....
Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a multilayered story consisting of six Greek myths that are told from a unique perspective and appeals to all readers, specifically children. His writing style transcends age to deliver a family-friendly narrative.
A brother and sister occupy their family home, which has been linked to a series of unfortune events including the death of its original owner. They attempt to avoid their ancestorâs fate and escape their looming legacy.
" The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The readerâs interest never flags for a moment..Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to...
"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- Edgar Allan Poe
In a small Puritan community, Hester has a baby, but her husband has been away for years. She is forced to wear a bright red "A" sewn onto on her dress, broadcasting her disgrace as an Adulteress. When her jealous and deranged husband returns,...
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 âAâ and live as an outcast. As she...
Nathaniel Hawthorne?s classic of gothic literature follows the Pyncheon family in pre- and post-colonial New England, in their ancestral home; the titular House of the Seven Gables.Published in 1851 at the height of the Gothic fiction craze, Hawthorne&aci...