Nathaniel Hawthorne: 696 books

A fantasy tale for Children.

The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. Contents The Gorgon's head -- The...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. One 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 level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed...

Published in 1852, this collection of short stories was the last to appear from the author in his lifetime. It includes a number of notable stories, among them "Ethan Brand," in which a man discovers "the unpardonable sin," "The Man of Adamant," in which a hermit undergoes a horrifying transformation, and "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," a dark depiction of America at the time of the Revolution.

Set in a utopian community, founded upon anti-capitalist ideals.

Boston, 1642. Dans la petite communauté puritaine, obsédée par la honte et le péché, la trop belle Hester Prynne est reconnue coupable d'adultère et clouée au pilori. Elle devra également porter, sa vie durant, une lettre écarlate : un " A " cousu sur sa poitrine, comme marque d'infamie....

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...

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...