Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The story of Hester Prynne, shunned for her adultery in seventeenth century Massachusetts, and how she used her inner strength to overcome society's ridicule.

Classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.

A nocturnal journey with the devil and a strange vision in the forest lead Goodman Brown to regard his fellow townspeople as devil worshipers.

Makes study for the SAT easier using a facing-page format which, on the right-hand side, lays out the text of The Scarlet Letter, highlighting challenging SAT words, and, on the left-hand side, their definitions, part of speech, pronunciation, and synonyms.

Nathaniel Hawthorne retells classic Greek myths, including such subjects and characters as the Minotaur, the Pygmies, the dragon's teeth, Circe's palace, the pomegranate seeds, the Golden Fleece, Odysseus, Zeus, Theseus and Ariadne, Cadmus and Europa, and Jason and the Argonauts.