Hawthorne: 81 books

The Last Pirate, a novel by Wilson Hawthorne, is the story of Harley Cooper, a fourteen-year-old Florida boy. One August day in the summer of 2004, Harley finds a treasure map in his crab trap on Pine Island Sound. The map originally belonged to the notorious pirate Gasparilla and had been lost for...

These are the essays of music teacher, Bud Hawthorne, following his resignation from public school teaching. In this short memoir of stories, critiques, and correspondences, Bud struggles with his thoughts through the course of one last year teaching, and the resignation itself. Divided on his decision...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty-six, and a tale writer of some twenty-four years’ standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea-captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet...

"La lettera scarlatta", pubblicato nel 1850, è un classico della letteratura statunitense scritto da Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ambientato nel New England puritano nel XVII secolo, il romanzo racconta la storia di Hester Prynne che, dopo aver commesso adulterio, ha una figlia di cui si rifiuta...

Indice dei Racconti Le mogli dei morti di Nathaniel Hawthorne La sepoltura di Roger Malvin di Nathaniel Hawthorne Il duplice delitto della Rue Morgue di Edgar Allan Poe Bartleby di Herman Melville Storia della ghiandaia che scopri un buco di Mark Twain Il...

A excepcion de algunos pocos fragmentos, estos textos han permanecido ineditos en castellano hasta la edicion que el lector tiene en sus manos. Dijo Jorge Luis Borges que Hawthorne murio durmiendo y que tal vez por eso nos lego la tarea de soñar. Sin duda, como escritor, Hawthorne soño muchos mas...

Nathaniel Hawthorne es justamente reconocido por la singularidad de sus alegorias y simbolismos, y tambien por su insolita capacidad de escrutar la psicologia y la moral humanas. Sus escritos, de atmosfera enigmatica, llevaron a Borges a compararlo con Melville y Kafka.Los relatos que conforman estos...

El gran rostro de piedra (The great stone face) es un relato fantástico del escritor norteamericano Nathaniel Hawthorne. El cuento fue publicado en la póstuma colección de relatos fantásticos de 1889: El gran rostro blanco y otros cuentos de las Montañas Blancas (The great stone face and other tales of the White Mountains).

La casa de los siete tejados es una novela de Nathaniel Hawthorne, publicada en 1851, y totalmente reconocida como la mejor novela norteamericana de este período. Tiene lugar en la casa homónima de Salem, Massachusetts.

It’s Tokyo, 1941. Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yakamoto are Japanese-American friends and jazz musicians playing Tokyo’s lively nightclub scene. Stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Teddy and Jimmy are drafted into the Japanese army and sent to fight against American troops in the Philippines....

POE BALLANTINE’S RISKY PERSONAL ESSAYS are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound bus journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and...

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is...

DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 2007, POE BALLANTINE’S second collection of personal essays follows in the tradition of Things I Like About America. Stories range from "The Irving," which details Mr. Ballantine’s diabolical plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an audience of 2,000...

Life Is Short-Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious...