Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...

Twenty four of the best of Hawthorne's short stories.

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 prominent New England family suffering under a two-hundred-year-old curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death.

Retells Hawthorne's adaptation of the story of the Persephone - - goddess of the underworld and symbol of the death and rebirth cycle of the seasons.

Collects sixteen tales of suspense, horror, and the supernatural from the Colonial era.