Hawthorne: 941 books

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

An afternoon of a cold winter’s day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was...

Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Le Paradis des enfants et cinq autres contes illustrés Extrait : Les jours dorés d’octobre avaient passé comme les jours de...

Excerpt: "Mankind has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them. The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. As far back as written records go we find stories; even before that time, they were handed down from remote...

Malory Claremont was born and raised to be the villain in someone else's story, complete with fire-based superpowers. Then his cousin and former partner-in-crime, Brady, led him into a trap, and he's been in superpowered lockdown ever since. When he gets out on parole, he meets Theo McCracken,...

Hester Prynne è una giovane donna di una piccola comunità puritana nella Nuova Inghilterra. La sua vita viene stravolta quando, durante l'assenza del marito, gli abitanti scoprono che Hester ha dato alla luce una figlia illegittima. La donna viene accusata di adulterio e, come punizione, le viene...

È il 1642 a Boston. L'ambiente sociale è caratterizzato da severità morale a sfondo religioso tipica dell'epoca. Hester ha dato alla luceuna bambina, Pearl, nonostante il marito sia assente da anni dalla città, e per questa ragione ha affrontato un processo per adulterio e, come punizione,...

Dillon wakes up in Ezekiel’s bed, at his estate, with no memory of arriving. She still believes that she is simply there for his pleasure, and once the weekend comes to an end, she will leave and go back to her life. She has no clue that the massive male at her back is about to implode her life...

When Aeron heard the summons from the mortal realm, he couldn't resist. The voice, the one that had been echoing through his dreams since he was just a boy, the one everyone thought meant he was going mad just like his mother, was real. And it was mortal. Aeron stepped through the tear in the...

UNA multitud de hombres barbudos, vestidos con trajes obscuros y sombreros de copa alta, casi puntiaguda, de color gris, mezclados con mujeres unas con caperuzas y otras con la cabeza descubierta, se hallaba congregada frente á un edificio de madera cuya pesada puerta de roble estaba tachonada con...