Hawthorne: 941 books

Boston, 1642. Hester, dont le mari est porté disparu, est mise au pilori car elle a commis l’adultère. Condamnée par la colonie puritaine à porter jusqu’à la fin de sa vie sur la poitrine un A écarlate, elle part vivre à la périphérie de la ville, seule avec sa fille, car elle a refusé...

La boîte de Pandore qu'il ne faut pas ouvrir sous peine des pires malheurs ; le roi Midas que sa passion de l'or faillit perdre ; Hercule qui par la ruse et la force obtiendra les pommes d'or du jardin des Hespérides ; Philémon et Baucis, les amoureux vieillissants qui resteront unis par-delà...

HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of...

♦ Este ebook tiene un diseño estético optimizado para la lectura digital ♦ Pasión, emoción desenfrenada y amor prohibido en la puritana Nueva Inglaterra... La Letra Escarata es una novela de Nathaniel Hawthorn y considerada su obra cumbre.Se trata de la historia de Hester Prynne,...

A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new...

Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended...

JAMAICA, CHRISTMAS 1679.In Morant Bay, a fleet of buccaneers secretly prepares to attack the Spanish Main, in defiance of the peace treaty between England and Spain. A veteran of the Dutch Wars and Henry Morgan's sack of Panama, Tom Sheppard flees from a brawl in Port Royal with his two young turtle-fishing...

together, and I question whether there be a man of us that could play that march without book. I never heard it but once before, and that was at the funeral of his late Majesty, King George the Second."   "Well, well!" said Sir William Howe, recovering his composure—"it is the prelude to some masquerading antic. Let it pass."  ...

"Money & The Power" presents a gripping street tale of love, murder, steamy sex, drugs, crime and betrayal. This novel will have you in awe. In the deadly streets of Milwaukee, WI loyalty is a rarity.

Superpowered Special Agent Gabriel Genêt's first solo mission is simple enough on the surface. He's supposed to visit Hooperstown, North Carolina, find evidence that Andrew Wynne is operating as a vigilante, and then bring him in. It's even simpler given that ten years ago, Gabriel spent a...

An important prerequisite for successful conservation is a good understanding of what we seek to conserve. Nowhere is this more the case than in the fight to protect plant biodiversity, which is threatened by human activity in many regions worldwide. This book is written in the belief that tools that...