Nathaniel Hawthorne

This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet -- in part...

Retells the following Greek myths: "The Gorgon's Head," "The Golden Touch," "The Paradise of Children," "The Three Golden Apples," "The Miraculous Pitcher," and "The Chimaera." Includes essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Crane.

A collection of Hawthorne's short stories that address subjects such as witchcraft and a passion for the beautiful.

In seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.

An adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel in which Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

In graphic novel format, retells the story of Hester Prynne, who is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.

Adaptations of three tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, plus an introduction to the author and discussion questions.

An abridged version of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred-year-old curse.

Condemned for the sin of adultry in puritanical, 18th-century New England, Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter "A" on her chest. Enduring her punishment with dignity, she chooses independence, motherhood and love despite the social values of her time. Enduring her public punishment with dignity, Hester grows stronger as the years of her isolation pass. Her lover, however, lives undetected in the community, tormented and weakened by the burden...