Twice-Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". In his essays Hawthorne aimed to show us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox. Massachusetts. All the tales are modified from the original myths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Twice-Told Tales contains rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. From the unrepentant Gingerbread Man and his tirades against overprotective parents, meddlesome neighbors, and untrustworthy foxes, to the giant's wife who simply wants Jack out of the picture so that she and her mate may continue collaborating on poetry, these ironic...

Натаниель Готорн - классик американской литературы, чьи работы остаются актуальными по сей день. В увлекательный сборник мифов "Сказания Лесной Чащи" представлены шесть мифов Древней Греции, которые будут интересны читателям всех возрастов: "Тесей и Минотавр", "Геркулес и Антей", "Кадмус и основание Фив"; "миф об Одиссее и Цирцее", "Ясон и Аргонавты", "Похищение Прозерпины". Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Натаниель Готорн - классик американской литературы, чьи работы остаются актуальными по сей день. В сборник мифов "Чудо-книга для мальчишек и девчонок" представлены и адаптированы для юных читателей 6 мифов Древней Греции: "Яблоки гесперид", "Миф о Химере", "Миф о Персее и Медузе Горгоне" и другие. Читателей ждут невероятные приключения, известные герои и увлекательные истории, которые запомнятся на долгие годы. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. "The Blithedale Romance", considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, "The Blithedale Romance" represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel.