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&quot;The Scarlet Letter&quot; (1850) is a historical romantic fiction novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). &quot;It 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 adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin and guilt.&quot; (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia)<br><br>Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published in print format, mostly over a century ago and are now republished in digital format as ebooks. Begin to build your collection of digital books by looking for more literary gems from Mermaids Classics.

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"A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls" is a classic retelling for children of some of the most famous stories from Greek mythology. In this collection you will find the stories of «The Gorgon’s Head», «The Golden Touch», «The Paradise of Children», «The Three Golden Apples», «The Miraculous Pitcher», and «The Chimæra». Hawthorne's «A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls» is an excellent collection of stories of adventure and fantasy which serves as a great introduction to Greek mythology for younger readers.

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"The House of the Seven Gables" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous works. It is the story of the Pyncheon family and the title house, the mansion where they reside. The house, which is built upon land acquired through unscrupulous circumstances, carries with it a curse on the Pyncheon family through the many generations of the family that inherit it. A classic moral tale «The House of the Seven Gables» is the story of how the wrong doings of one generation follows through to its successive ones.

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A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its residents for over two centuries. Now Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, an iron-hearted hypocrite and intellectual heir to the mansion's unscrupulous founder, is attempting to railroad a pair of his elderly relatives out of the house. Only two young people stand in his way a visiting country cousin and an enigmatic boarder skilled in mesmerism.

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In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband – long thought to be lost at sea – has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is born, Hester is frequently visited by both Reverend Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, but always refuses to name her lover. As the years wear on and Pearl grows older, Hester's defiance – and her lover's silence – weighs heavily on the lives of all parties involved.

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 16700 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Scarlet Letter • Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories • The House of the Seven Gables • The Scarlet Letter • Twice Told Tales • A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys • The Blithedale Romance • True Stories of History and Biography • A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys • Tanglewood Tales • The Snow Image • Twice-Told Tales • Earth's Holocaust (From «Mosses from an Old Manse») • The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains • Little Masterpieces • The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair • The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni • The Paradise of Children • The Snow-Image • The Gorgon's Head • The Christmas Banquet (From «Mosses from an Old Manse») • The Wives of the Dead • Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume. • Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches • Yesterdays with AuthorsJames Thomas Fields • Beneath an Umbrella (From «Twice Told Tales») • P.'s Correspondence (From «Mosses from an Old Manse») • Fanshawe • Doctor Grimshawe's Secret – a Romance • Doctor Grimshawe's Secret – a Romance • Biographical Stories • The Haunted Mind (From «Twice Told Tales») • The Three Golden Apples • Hawthorne and His CircleJulian Hawthorne • Love Letters of, Volume • Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks • Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons LathropGeorge Parsons Lathrop • Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete • Snow Flakes (From «Twice Told Tales») • The Miraculous Pitcher • The Man of Adamant • Passages from the American Notebooks • Biographical Sketches • Main Street • Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, WhitmanHenry A. Beers • The Dolliver Romance • Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life • Footprints on the Sea-Shore • Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man • etc.

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THE SCARLET LETTER is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. 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. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. 20th-century writer D. H. Lawrence said that there could not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter. Henry James once said of the novel, «It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things-an indefinable purity and lightness of conception…One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art.» The book's immediate and lasting success are due to the way it addresses spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.

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Jorge Luis Borges creía que en los cuentos de Nathaniel Hawthorne se inaugura el modo particular de ensoñación del cual surgirá el lenguaje oceánico de Herman Melville, las pesadillas de Edgar Allan Poe y las alucinaciones de William Faulkner. De hecho, cuando se les pidió a seis escritores argentinos que nombraran sus relatos predilectos, Borges escogió sin vacilar el «Wakefield» de Hawthorne, una «breve y ominosa parábola» que prefigura el mundo de Kafka, autor que a su vez «modifica y afina la lectura de 'Wakefield'».

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The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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