The Scarlet Letter

Macmillan Children's Books

A brilliant collection of stories based on the heroes and villains of Norse Mythology, hand-picked and collected together in this gorgeous gift treasury.Delve into the world of gods, giants and monsters, as you sit atop Air Throne and survey the kingdom of Asgard. With magnificent colour and line-work illustrations from artists such as Charles Brock, Arthur Rackham and Helen St...

L. Frank Baum / Anna Bond

A wonderful, wicked new deluxe hardcover edition of The Wizard of Oz with cover illustrations by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully myster...

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for StoneOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperA Fare...

Lee, Harper

Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, now available as a beautifully designed collector's edition with sprayed and stenciled edges and gold foil. And look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if ...

Virginia Woolf

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs LastA Penguin Vitae Ed...

Robert Louis Stevenson

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of their bond, it see...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Podemos situar a Nathaniel Hawthorne, sin la más mínima duda, en el pódium de los mejores prosistas clásicos estadounidenses, compartiendo trono con Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville o, incluso, Henry James o Mark Twain. Su estilo es elegante, profundo y ampliamente pulido, y «un autor tan veraz como lo permite su talento», como él mismo comentaría en alguna ocasión. Ambientada...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Ester Prynne aguarda en Boston la llegada de su marido, el médico Roger Chillingworth, procedente de Inglaterra. Durante la espera nace entre Ester y el reverendo Dimmesdale, pastor de la comunidad, una irrefrenable pasión amorosa, de la que nacerá Perla, prueba inequívoca de la traición de Ester. Por ello, la comunidad de Boston la condena a la soledad moral, obligándola a luc...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) está consideradoel primer gran novelista norteamericano. En las tradiciones y en la historia de su Nueva Inglaterra natal encontrará la inspiración para sus relatos, que le dieron un puesto de honor en la literatura del Renacimiento Americano. La Casa de los Siete Tejados (1851) es una historia de culpas, en la que un delito proyecta sus consecue...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Delve into The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's meditation on human alienation and its effect on the soul in this story set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts and be dazzled by literature.In Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act ruins the lives of three people. None more so than Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, w...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer upon her, others feel the guilt for her trans...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Tales of Greek mythology have entertained countless generations of young readers with their accounts of brave heroes and heroines and the marvels and monsters that they encounter. This edition of Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys features six classic tales written especially for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It includes the legends of Pandora and the Box of Troub...