HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

The House of Seven Gables

At the end of the 17th century, in a small town in New England, Colonel Pyncheon decided to build an overlooking mansion — the "house of the seven roofs" that originates the title of the book — on the place...

The Yarn of a Yankee Privateer

In the years of American Independence, the hostilities between the British Crown and the colonists already settled in the territory of present-day North America also took place at sea, with all the tricks...

The Scarlet Letter

Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension...