Nathaniel: 1040 books

A fascinating look at the events of the American Civil War. Part of the fifty volume series on American history, Chronicles of America.

THE planter alighted from the dusty-little train under the crumbling brick car-shed at Darley, and, turning his heavy hand-luggage over to the negro porter, he walked across the grass to the steps of the Johnston House. Here he was met by Jim Thornton, the dapper young clerk, who always had a curled...

Kidnapping is a crime that was alien to Nigeria until recently when the youths of the oil-rich Niger Delta Region began to use it as a political weapon to register agitation against economic marginalization by the Federal Government. It was subsequently hijacked and downgraded by criminals in other...

Boston, 1642. Dans la petite communauté puritaine, obsédée par la honte et le péché, la trop belle Hester Prynne est reconnue coupable d'adultère et clouée au pilori. Elle devra également porter, sa vie durant, une lettre écarlate : un " A " cousu sur sa poitrine, comme marque d'infamie....

Boston, 1642. Hester, dont le mari est porté disparu, est mise au pilori car elle a commis l’adultère. Condamnée par la colonie puritaine à porter jusqu’à la fin de sa vie sur la poitrine un A écarlate, elle part vivre à la périphérie de la ville, seule avec sa fille, car elle a refusé...

La boîte de Pandore qu'il ne faut pas ouvrir sous peine des pires malheurs ; le roi Midas que sa passion de l'or faillit perdre ; Hercule qui par la ruse et la force obtiendra les pommes d'or du jardin des Hespérides ; Philémon et Baucis, les amoureux vieillissants qui resteront unis par-delà...

HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of...

A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new...

Clinical Oral Medicine and Pathology, is a clinically relevant and accessible resource for health care professionals that truly bridges the worlds of dentistry and medicine. This handbook of oral medicine and oral pathology serves as a highly readable guide for diagnosis and treatment of commonly...

Perspectives discusses the journey of the author to accomplish a task he received: to see the good in all things for thirty consecutive days. He presents the conflicts experienced during and after the 316 days it took him to complete the task. The author discusses the lessons received that...

Noto anche con il titolo 'L'elisir di lunga vita' questo romanzo di Hawthorne, pubblicato postumo nel 1872, ha come tema centrale l'affanosa consapevolezza umana della brevità della vita. A questo problema prova a trovare soluzione Settimio Felton, un giovane prossimo a divenire ministro di culto...