Nathaniel Hawthorne

Excerpt from Septimius Felton: Or the Elixir of Life Stretched, with one or two breaks and interruptions, into the heart of the village of Concord, the county town. It was in the side of this hill that, according to tradition, the first settlers of the village had burrowed in caverns which they had dug out for their shelter, like swallows and woodchucks. As its slope was towards the south, and its ridge and crowning woods defended them from the northern blasts and snow-drifts, it was an admirable situation for the fierce New England winter; and the temperature was milder, by several degrees, along this hillside than on the unprotected plains, or by the river, or in any other part of Concord. So that here, during the hundred years that had elapsed since the first settle ment of the place, dwellings had successively risen close to the hill's foot, and the meadow that lay on the other side of the road a fertile tract had been cultivated; and these three young people were the children's chil dren's children of persons of respectability who had dwelt there, Rose Garfield, in a small house, the site of which is still indicated by the cavity of a cellar, in which I this very past summer planted some sunflowers to thrust their great disks out from the hollow and allure the bee and the humming-bird; Robert Hagburn, in a house of some what more pretension, a hundred yards or so nearer to the village, standing back from the road in the broader space which the retreating hill, cloven by a gap in that place, afforded; where some elms intervened between it and the road, offering a site which some person of a nat ural taste for the gently picturesque had seized upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores the nature of sin and purity. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.

La casa de los siete tejados es totalmente reconocida como la mejor novela norteamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. La casa de los siete tejados tiene como escenario una casa, indudablemente peculiar, construida en el siglo XVII y ubicada en el centro de Salem, en una peque a localidad de Nueva Inglaterra. La mansi n est supuestamente endemoniada, ya que en ella se hab an realizado antes distintos ritos de brujer a. En realidad el autor expone el drama social de aquella poca, va mostrando la ridiculez de las posturas soberbias que desprecian a las personas humildes, quienes piensan y act an con total libertad, es decir fuera del orden puritano establecido en la poca.

Musgos de una vieja rector a es una colecci n de relatos fant sticos del escritor norteamericano Nathaniel Hawthorne, publicada en 1846. La antolog a incluye varios cuentos de in ditos de Nathaniel Hawthorne, y otros que ya hab an pasado por la imprenta. La vieja rector a o vieja mansi n a la que hace referencia el t tulo es un homenaje a The Old Manse, en Concord, Massachusetts, donde Nathaniel Hawtorne y Sophia Peabody vivieron los primeros tres a os de matrimonio.

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Mosses from an Old Manse and Other StoriesBy Nathaniel Hawthorne