Published by Duffield & Company, 1910. - 358 p. A classic collection of stories based upon mythology. This edition includes 10 color plates rendered by American illustrator Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966).
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he rewrites myths from Greek mythology. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls.
The stories are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of...
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement, -call it which you will, -is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one, which is mistily presented through the windows. I have experienced, that fancy is then most successful in imparting distinct shapes and vivid colors to the objects which the author...
Delphi Classics, 2011. The Novels Fanshawe The Scarlet Letter The House Of The Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance The Marble Faun The Dolliver Romance Septimius Felton Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret The Ancestral Footstep The Short Story Collections Twice-told Tales The Whole History Of Grandfather’s Chair Mosses From An Old Manse The Snow-image, And Other Twice-told Tales A...
The Hampton Publishing Co., 1921. — 264 p. Hawthorne wrote these stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature. The Minotaur; The Pygmies; The Dragon's Teeth; Circe's Palace; The Pomegranate Seeds; and The Golden Fleece. llustrator: Virginia Frances...
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and...
Published in 1850. The novel takes place during the summer in 17th-century Boston, Massachusetts in a Puritan village. (Audiobook) A young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms and on the breast of her gown "a rag of scarlet cloth" that "assumed the shape of a letter. " It was the uppercase letter "A". The Scarlet...
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity....
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