puritans

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puritans

The scarlet letter

an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism
1978

The house on Stink Alley

a story about the Pilgrims in Holland
1980
Young Love Brewster describes the experiences of his family and other Pilgrims living in Leyden in the years before the Mayflower sailed for the New World.

The scarlet letter

2009
A graphic novel retelling of the classic story of Hester Prynne, a young wife who struggles to keep her dignity after being condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

Young Goodman Brown and other tales

1991
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.

The American Puritans, their prose and poetry

1982
An anthology of Puritan writings from seventeenth-century New England, including tracts, journal entries, sermons, and poems.

American Jezebel

the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
2004
Chronicles the life of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman banished from Massachusetts in 1637 for her unconventional religious beliefs and the threat she posed, as an outspoken woman, to social order in the colony.

Witch hunt

2004
Return to Colonial New England for a fresh look at the infamous events of Puritan Salem.

The Scarlet Letter

1996
In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister.

The house of the seven gables

1998
Jealousy, loyalty, and a family feud between two brothers are all at play in this classic story, based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The sudden death of Jaffrey (George Sanders) and Clifford (Vincent Price) Pyncheon's father provides the vengeful and vindictive Jaffrey with the perfect opportunity to get his brother out of the way and seize the family fortune.

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