Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges.However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.

First published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt and sin has since been lauded as the most important work of fiction by its distinguished author - and a landmark of American literature.

Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter 'A' for 'Adulteress'

Alex Katz illustrates Hawthorne's classic gothic tale of Puritan New EnglandWhile enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne's classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as The Scarlet Letter. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England-based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.Alex Katz (born 1927) is a New York-based artist known for his large-scale Pop-inspired canvases of two-dimensional figures set against monochrome backgrounds. For over seven decades, his work has been the subject of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.

Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a multilayered story consisting of six Greek myths that are told from a unique perspective and appeals to all readers, specifically children. His writing style transcends age to deliver a family-friendly narrative.A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a compilation of classic stories inspired by Greek mythology. Hawthorne's interpretation is filtered through the fictional character, Eustace Bright, a college student who's entertaining a group of children. The book features "The Gorgon's Head," a popular epic that follows Perseus and his quest to slay Medusa. There's also "The Paradise of Children," a cautionary tale about Pandora's box, and "The Golden Touch," which recalls the story of King Midas. Originally published in 1851, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys continues to stand the test of time. Its stories are literary staples that have been adapted for multiple mediums. The collection also produced the sequel, Tanglewood Tales, which was released in 1853. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is both modern and readable.

"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- Edgar Allan Poe"To this little book we would say 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius."-Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales is a spectacularly rich collection of thirty-nine penetrating stories. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle mysticism and deep melancholy. The title is a nod to Shakespeare's line "Life is a tedious as a twice-told tale/Vexing the ear of a drowsy man."; it furthermore is Hawthorne's acknowledgment that these stories all had been previously published in various magazines and newspapers of the day.Never one to shy from exploring themes of darkness and morality, these stories beg for repeated readings in order to fully grasp their true richness; yet, there is a sheer enjoyment in the subtle, truly imaginative beauty in each one. Amongst this collection are the tales "The Ambitious Guest," "The Minister's Black Veil," "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," "The Hollow of Three Hills," "The Haunted Mind," and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" which was adapted into the 1963 Horror Film starring Vincent Price.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twice-Told Tales is both modern and readable.

First published in 1835, ‘Young Goodman Brown’ is a short story by the renowned American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in 17th century Salem, young Goodman Brown tells his new wife Faith that he must go on a journey, and sets out alone into the woods. There he comes across a mysterious man who isn’t all that he seems. As Goodman Brown journeys further into the woods, he witnesses things that will shake the very core of his faith and belief. A tense, symbolic story by the author of ‘The Scarlet Letter’. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Hawthorne began his writing career in 1828 with the publication of his first novel, ‘Fanshawe’, followed by a collection of short stories. In 1850 he published perhaps his most famous work, ‘The Scarlet Letter’, which has since been adapted multiple times for stage and screen. Many of his novels explore lessons in morality, and centre around the themes of sin and evil. Some of his other best-known works include the novels ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ and ‘The Marble Faun’, and short stories ‘Wakefield’ and ‘Feathertop’. Hawthorne died in 1864 at the age of 59.

Lata 40. XVII wieku. Młoda mężatka Hester Prynne przyjeżdża do Bostonu, który wówczas był jeszcze małą osadą. Tam, czekając na przybycie męża, niespodziewanie zakochuje się w innym mężczyźnie i zachodzi w ciążę. Na świat przychodzi mała Pearl, a jej matka staje się symbolem hańby. Purytańska społeczność wymierza Hester dotkliwe kary. Ta, mimo napiętnowania, nie zdradza tożsamości kochanka. Stara się odkupić winy, oddając się wychowaniu córki i pomocy innym. Czy to wystarczy, by odzyskać poważanie wśród lokalnej społeczności?Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)) – amerykański pisarz romantyczny. Jeden z najbardziej wpływowych twórców wczesnej literatury amerykańskiej. Utwory Hawthorne’a często skupiały się wokół tematyki grzechu i odkupienia oraz mrocznych stron ludzkiej natury.

High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley. Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley, and his face will look just like the Great Stone Face.When will this man come, and who will it be? Will it be the great soldier, the statesman, the man of commerce, or one of the other visitors to the valley?One person who wants to know the answer is Ernest, who has lived in the valley all his life. Year by year, Ernest has come to know the Great Stone Face as a friend. Now he is waiting for the end of the story.When that end comes, it is the one he least expects.

På Toldboden i Salem finder vores fortæller en gammel frønnet klud. Et falmet, men stadig skarlagenrødt A, der akkompagneres af den tidligere toldinspektør Jonathan Pues optegnelser. Det bliver udgangspunktet for historien om Hester Prynne.‘Det skarlagenrøde bogstav’ tager sin begyndelse i 1642 i det puritanske Boston. Den unge Hester dømmes til at bære bogstavet A, men selvom hun bogstaveligt talt er mærket af sin synd, angrer hun tilsyneladende ikke, og skammens mærke vokser sig på forunderlig vis til et styrkende symbol på Hesters indentitet.Denne udgave er forsynet med et uddybende efterskrift af oversætter Hans-Jørgen Birkmose.Om Charles Dickens’ Spøgelseshistorier (2020):“… kurateret og oversat til fortræffelighed af den danske godfather inden for victoriansk litteratur, Hans-Jørgen Birkmose.”*****BerlingskeEn stramt komponeret og medrivende romance om individets værdighed i åben konfrontation mod konformiteten.

¿A perfect work of the American imagination.¿-D.H Lawrence¿The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader¿s interest never flags for a moment¿Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to you. He will have plunged you into melancholy, he will have overshadowed you with black forebodings, he will almost have crushed you with imaginary sorrows; but he will have enabled you to feel yourself an inch taller during the process.¿-Anthony TrollopeNathaniel Hawthorne¿s The Scarlet Letter is a razor-sharp novel set in a seventeen-century puritan community. The book examines the contradictions of good and evil, what is apparent and what is hidden, and the power of redemption. After Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, has a child out of wedlock, she is branded with the scarlet letter ¿A¿ on her dress. Shunned in her community as she refused to identify the father of her child, Hester lives with in a small cottage with her daughter, Pearl. Roger Chillingworth, an elderly physician, joins the community, and unbeknownst to all except for Hester, he is her long-departed husband, who was presumed to be dead. In his absence, Hester had an affair and subsequently gave birth to a child. Covertly aiming for revenge on the father of the child, Chillingworth descends on Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the young minister who he suspects in the illicit affair. Within the remarkable character of Hester, Hawthorne examines female independence and the complexities of sin. With a surprising emotional pitch and powerful insights into the human condition, this is one of Americäs greatest novels. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Scarlet Letter is both modern and readable.

¿The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes.¿- Edgar Allan Poe¿To this little book we would say ¿Live ever, sweet, sweet book.¿ It comes from the hand of a man of genius.¿-Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNathaniel Hawthorne¿s Twice-Told Tales is a spectacularly rich collection of thirty-nine penetrating stories. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle mysticism and deep melancholy. The title is a nod to Shakespeare¿s line ¿Life is a tedious as a twice-told tale/Vexing the ear of a drowsy man.¿; it furthermore is Hawthorne¿s acknowledgment that these stories all had been previously published in various magazines and newspapers of the day.Never one to shy from exploring themes of darkness and morality, these stories beg for repeated readings in order to fully grasp their true richness; yet, there is a sheer enjoyment in the subtle, truly imaginative beauty in each one. Amongst this collection are the tales ¿The Ambitious Guest,¿ ¿The Minister¿s Black Veil,¿ ¿The May-Pole of Merry Mount,¿ ¿The Hollow of Three Hills,¿ ¿The Haunted Mind,¿ and ¿Dr. Heidegger¿s Experiment¿ which was adapted into the 1963 Horror Film starring Vincent Price.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twice-Told Tales is both modern and readable.

"La verdad es que, donde existen un corazón y una inteligencia, las enfermedades del cuerpo quedan coloreadas por las peculiaridades del uno y la otra.""La letra escarlata" es considerada por muchos críticos literarios como la obra maestra de Nathaniel Hawthorne y fue publicada en 1850. Esta novela, ambientada en la versión más tradicional y puritana de Boston sobre el 1642, cuenta la Hester Prynne, una mujer que fue condenada por adulterio a exhibir la letra A en color púrpura por encima de su vestido. A pesar de la humillación pública delante de una multitud reunida para presenciar el castigo, así como la amenaza de años en la cárcel, Prynne nunca reveló la identidad de la persona con la que cometió el llamado crimen, quien es, a la vez, el padre de su hija.Después de años en prisión, Hester Prynne se instala en las afueras de Boston para llevar una vida modesta trabajando como costurera. Sin embargo, Prynne tiene problemas criando a su hija Pearl, que a medida que va creciendo se vuelve más rebelde, hasta el punto en el que la madre pide ayuda al reverendo Dimmesdale, que le aconseja separarse de su hija durante una temporada. Poco a poco, se quedará claro que la relación entre el reverendo Dimmesdale y Hester Prynne tiene una larga historia..."La letra escarlata" es una potente narración que gira entorno a la temática de la moral, el pecado y la culpa. Con la elegancia y precisión que le caracterizan, Hawthorne muestra una gran habilidad como escritor para hacernos reflexionar sobre el papel de la religión y sus normas en las relaciones humanas personales y en su efecto en la sociedad."La letra escarlata" fue adaptada a la gran pantalla en 1995 con Demi Moore en el papel de Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) fue un escritor americano de historias góticas. Su obra cumbre "La letra escarlata" (1850) fue uno de los primeros libros americanos producidos de forma masiva y se considera hoy como la primera 'Great American Novel"

"La casa de los siete tejados" es una novela gótica escrita por Nathaniel Hawthorne y publicada en 1851. "El hombre está dispuesto a cometer todas las vilezas, a acumular crimen tras crimen, solamente con el fin de construir un edificio grande y sombrío en el cual poder morir y en el que sus descendientes serán desgraciados. Entierra su cadáver en los cimientos de la casa, por decirlo así, y cuelga su ceñudo retrato en la pared, convirtiéndose en el genio malo de la familia, y todavía espera que sus biznietos sean felices."Ambientada en la ciudad de Salem, Massachusetts, conocida por su historia ligada a las brujas y lo sobrenatural, "La casa de los siete tejados" cuenta la historia de una casa endemoniada y del destino trágico de su constructor, el coronel Pyncheon.La historia empieza con el juicio contra Matthew Maule, un habitante de Salem al que se le acusa de hechicero. Durante el juicio, en el cual el coronel Pyncheon está presente, Maule le lanza una maldición bajo la frase "Dios le dará sangre para beber". Maule acaba siendo condenado y Pyncheon se apodera de la cabaña donde Maule vivía, y decide construir una ostentosa mansión. Lo que Pyncheon no sabe es que Mayle le había maldecido durante el juicio, y que la maldición culminará en la muerte repentina del coronel el día de la inauguración de la mansión. "La casa de los siete tejados" es considerada un referente de la novela gótica, pero el interés y la riqueza literaria de esta pieza van más allá de su género. Con una delicadeza y precisión digna de uno de los mejores autores norteamericanos del siglo XIX, Hawthorne crea un drama social en un escenario gótico donde el orden y el estatus social así como la religión son explorados con elegancia y profundidad.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) fue un escritor americano de historias góticas. Su obra cumbre "La letra escarlata" (1850) fue uno de los primeros libros americanos producidos de forma masiva y se considera hoy como la primera 'Great American Novel"

Goodman Brown is a young man who leads a normal and peaceful life with his wife Faith. However one evening, he leaves his wife and heads out to the forest. He has to run an unknown and urgent errand. There, he meets an old man who strangely resembles Brown a lot. Together, they walk deeper in the woods and suddenly Brown hears Faith’s voice coming from an unknown direction. He runs angrily through the forest when he stumbles upon a strange ceremony. Goodman Brown’s adventure through the woods is a symbol for his journey into self-scrutiny. But is he being tortured through a dream or it this all reality? B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author who lived in the period 1804-1864. He is best known as novelist and short-story writer. His literary style belongs to dark romanticism. Morality, religion, guilt and sin were topics he often took up in his stories. History, symbolism and psychology were also often intertwined in his works. To this day, he is considered to be one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. Some of Hawthorne’s most popular novels are "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun".

Owen Warland is a genius who wants to create things and break the limitations set by the society and the people surrounding him. He is deeply misunderstood and he often quits his innovative projects when people advise him to take up something more "practical". After many failed attempts to fit in, he finally breaks away from society and finds peace in nature. Will he finally get to finish the creation of his lifetime and will it all have been in vain? Find out in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Mechanical Butterfly".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author who lived in the period 1804-1864. He is best known as novelist and short-story writer. His literary style belongs to dark romanticism. Morality, religion, guilt and sin were topics he often took up in his stories. History, symbolism and psychology were also often intertwined in his works. To this day, he is considered to be one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. Some of Hawthorne’s most popular novels are "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun".

A young traveler is up on a mountain when night falls and he finds shelter with a family that lives nearby. They make friendly conversation and the visitor shares his dreams and goals to achieve great things in life. Their conversation is however interrupted by the sound of rocks falling from the slope. Are they in danger? Find out in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "The Ambitious Guest".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author who lived in the period 1804-1864. He is best known as novelist and short-story writer. His literary style belongs to dark romanticism. Morality, religion, guilt and sin were topics he often took up in his stories. History, symbolism and psychology were also often intertwined in his works. To this day, he is considered to be one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. Some of Hawthorne’s most popular novels are "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun".

Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini is a scientist who grows poisonous plants in his garden. The only person who can tend to the plants is his own daughter Beatrice who has not only become resistant to poison but is also poisonous herself. Rappaccini and his daughter lead a secluded life, distanced from other people and reality. However, one day the young student Giovanni Guasconti sees Beatrice and immediately falls in love with her. Giovanni’s mentor Baglioni warns the poor boy but Giovanni’s feelings are stronger than anything. So he enters the poisonous garden. What will be the consequences for him and will he and Beatrice be able to be together? Find out in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Rappaccini's Daughter".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author who lived in the period 1804-1864. He is best known as novelist and short-story writer. His literary style belongs to dark romanticism. Morality, religion, guilt and sin were topics he often took up in his stories. History, symbolism and psychology were also often intertwined in his works. To this day, he is considered to be one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. Some of Hawthorne’s most popular novels are "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun".