These four essays framing Hawthorne's 12 slight, rarely published sketches of his 1832 tour of New England and upstate New York show him acceding to, but often satirizing, conventions of 19th-century American travel literature and popular landscape painting. Meant to be part of an early novel,... (learn more about this book)
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter ... (learn more about this book)
Romanian Edition wth the English title being: "Chimera - Fantastic American Fiction" ... more or less (learn more about this book)
Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by America's and Hawthorne's own history. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime... (learn more about this book)
"Tales and Sketches" offers what no reader has ever been able to find--an authoritative edition of Hawthorne's complete stories in a single comprehensive volume. Here is everything from his three collections, "Twice-told Tales," "Mosses from an Old Manse," "The Snow-Image, and Other... (learn more about this book)
The Scarlet Letter is considered a masterpiece of American literature. A young woman married to a much older man bears an illegitimate child and is sentenced to wear a red A as a badge of shame. House of Seven Gables is the story of a distinguished but troubled New England family. A... (learn more about this book)
Lost since his widow published bowdlerized excerpts in 1866 and 1868, Nathaniel Hawthorne's original Salem Notebook - the one containing more ideas for stories and 'articles' than any other- is here published for the first time. The earliest Notebook that Hawthorne is known to have kept, this one... (learn more about this book)