In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next...

With intertwining of the symbolic and the historical this novel explores personal and national guilt.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, the enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"-- Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the...

Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village, where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But when four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, Deliverance finds herself caught up in the ensuing drama of the trials. And life in Salem is never the same.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her adulterous act and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

520 Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale...

A selection of twenty short stories written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne between 1832 and 1850, reflecting his themes of guilt and secrecy, intellectual and moral pride, the supernatural, and the decadence of New England Puritanism.

Anne Yancy is a young vagrant who, despite suffering abuse all of her life, has grown strong and determined even as she secretly harbors a deep longing to belong. Nathan Woodbridge is a rich, Harvard-educated Puritan. Set in the year after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Blood, Flesh, And Flame is the story of a Puritan town under attack. Anne knows the source. Nathan has no patience for superstition or anything smacking of the paranormal yet is assigned...