Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the central figures of nineteenth‑century American literature, is celebrated for his darkly imaginative tales that probe the moral complexity of human nature. His writing, often set against the austere backdrop of Puritan New England, explores guilt, redemption, and the unseen consequences of sin with a distinctive psychological depth.

Best known for works such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne combined historical insight with a haunting sense of symbolism. His prose remains both elegant and unsettling, offering readers a timeless reflection on conscience and the shadows that linger within the human heart.

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  • The Scarlet Letter

    Chiltern Publishing The Scarlet Letter

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    £18.00

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Oxford University Press The Scarlet Letter

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAfter a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction.

    10 in stock

    £6.99

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Letter

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren   A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is “the herald of the modern heroine.”   Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

    10 in stock

    £6.99

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Scarlet Letter

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.

    15 in stock

    £5.62

  • The Marble Faun

    Oxford University Press The Marble Faun

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    Book Synopsis''any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended''The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the ''Marble Faun'', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam''s unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy.Hawthorne''s ''International Novel'' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the ''authentic'' and the ''fake'', in life as in art. The author''s evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favourite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existen

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    £9.49

  • Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales

    Oxford University Press Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales

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    Book SynopsisThis selection of twenty of Hawthorne''s tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewAn excellent edition of this seminal story by Hawthorne, with a helpful introduction to these tales, and excellent explanatary notes.' Lionel Kelly, University of Reading 'This collection offers a good selection of the well known and the less available tales. The introduction presents a stimulating analysis of Hawthorne's art and hios view of the role/identity of the writer. The notes na dbibliographical details anr excellent.' K.M.Parkinson, Roehampton Institute of Higher Education. 'Although I don't expect to use the text myself at the moment, I'm greatly pleased to see these early examples of the genre being published in so accessible a form. * B.D.Ingraham, Teesside Polytechnic. *Table of ContentsTHE GENTLE BOY; ROGER MALVIN'S BURIAL; THE GREY CHAMPION; THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT; THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL; DR HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT; ENDICOTT AND THE RED CROSS; THE BIRTHMARK; THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD; THE ARTIST OF THE BEAUTIFUL; RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER; ETHAN BRAND

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    £10.44

  • The Scarlet Letter Collins Classics

    HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter Collins Classics

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.''A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.

    4 in stock

    £5.68

  • The Scarlet Letter Penguin Classics Deluxe

    Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter Penguin Classics Deluxe

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisSet in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals the author's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves.Trade Review"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley

    10 in stock

    £14.40

  • Nathaniel Hawthornes Tales

    WW Norton & Co Nathaniel Hawthornes Tales

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisNathaniel Hawthorne’s best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition.Table of ContentsDownload Contents (pdf)

    15 in stock

    £14.99

  • THE SCARLET LETTER  AND SELECTED TALES

    Random House Publishing Group THE SCARLET LETTER AND SELECTED TALES

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £6.02

  • Selected Stories

    Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Selected Stories

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    1 in stock

    £6.29

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Pan Macmillan The Scarlet Letter

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisRoger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Scarlet Letter features an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole.

    2 in stock

    £10.44

  • Twice Told Tales

    Graphic Arts Books Twice Told Tales

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    Book Synopsis“The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes.”- Edgar Allan Poe “To this little book we would say ‘Live ever, sweet, sweet book.’ It comes from the hand of a man of genius.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales is a spectacularly rich collection of thirty-nine penetrating stories. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle mysticism and deep melancholy. The title is a nod to Shakespeare’s line “Life is a tedious as a twice-told tale/Vexing the ear of a drowsy man.”; it furthermore is Hawthorne’s acknowledgment that these stories all had been previously published in various magazines and newspapers of the day. Never one to shy from exploring themes of darkness and morality, these stories beg for repeated readings in order to fully grasp their true richness; yet, there is a sheer enjoyment in the subtle, truly imaginative beauty in each one. Amongst this collection are the tales “The Ambitious Guest,” “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The May-Pole of Merry Mount,” “The Hollow of Three Hills,” “The Haunted Mind,” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” which was adapted into the 1963 Horror Film starring Vincent Price. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Twice-Told Tales is both modern and readable.

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    £11.39

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Flame Tree Publishing The Scarlet Letter

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is branded with an 'A' to mark her adultery and the strict condemnation of the Puritan community. As Hester's crimes define her public life and the sinister Roger Chillingworth vows revenge, this devastating tale follows the characters as they grapple with shame, remorse and repentance. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.

    15 in stock

    £6.64

  • The Scarlet Letter

    HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.

    2 in stock

    £8.54

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Vintage Publishing The Scarlet Letter

    2 in stock

    Book Synopsis''One of the greatest allegories in all literature'' D.H. Lawrence Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl''s father. Hester''s refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter ''A'' for ''Adulteress''Trade ReviewAn extraordinary work of the imagination that burns from page to page with the fierce simplicity of scripture and an almost cinematic clarity of vision. The Scarlet Letter is an astounding book full of intense symbolism, as strange and haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe * Guardian *Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality as anything that had been received -- Henry JamesNo facile answers are provided here. Hester is, after all, guilty; Pearl the "Elfin" child, has devilish traits; the Puritans are given their due. Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are villains because of their hypocrisy but remain sympathetic because they are both self-destructive... * Independent *A defiant adulteress; a community of hypocrites who force her to wear a scarlet letter A around her neck as a badge of her shame; an evil husband, secretly stoking the fires of their moral fervour until it reaches boiling point; and, finally, a stunning public confession in which the woman reveals the identity of her lover, who is then promptly sent to the gallows * Sunday Times *In making fiction out of the excesses of his Puritan ancestors, Hawthorne anticipated the technique of a modern movie-director. He was a master of crowd scenes * Financial Times *

    2 in stock

    £7.59

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Penguin Books Ltd The House of the Seven Gables

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne''s gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man''s curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America''s limitless promise. Yet - in part because of blemishes on his own family history - he also saw the darker side of the young nation. Like his twentieth-century heirs William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne peered behind propriety''s façade and exposed the true human condition.Trade Review"A large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction."—Henry James

    1 in stock

    £10.44

  • The Blithedale Romance Penguin Classics

    Penguin Publishing Group The Blithedale Romance Penguin Classics

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves personally unrewarding and economically disastrous. Based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community, The Blithedale Romance is especially timely in light of renewed interest in self-sufficient and other cooperative societies.Trade Review"Hawthorne, in putting this novel together, was engaged in the most serious literary enterprise of his career."--Louis Auchincloss

    15 in stock

    £11.95

  • Selected Tales and Sketches Classics S

    Penguin Publishing Group Selected Tales and Sketches Classics S

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

    15 in stock

    £15.24

  • The Marble Faun

    Penguin Random House LLC The Marble Faun

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis novel tells the story of Donarells, an Italian Count bearing an uncanny resemblance to the faun of Praxiteles, the sculptor Kenyon and two young art students, Miriam and Hilda. The author also wrote "Scarlet Letter".Trade Review“Describ[es] Rome and Italian scenes as few others have.” —Anthony Trollope

    15 in stock

    £16.20

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne''Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss''Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet ''A'' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne''s inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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    £7.59

  • The Scarlett Letter

    Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlett Letter

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.Trade Review"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley

    10 in stock

    £7.59

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Oxford University Press The House of the Seven Gables

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £8.99

  • Hawthornes Short Stories Vintage Classics

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Hawthornes Short Stories Vintage Classics

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisTwenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin.Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as Young Goodman Brown, in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter, about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and The Birthmark, in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.

    4 in stock

    £13.49

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Random House USA Inc The House of the Seven Gables

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £8.54

  • TwiceTold Tales

    Random House USA Inc TwiceTold Tales

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    Book SynopsisThis volume of short stories and shorter works by Nathaniel Hawthorne was heralded upon its release and is still widely considered a classic.

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    £18.04

  • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings  A Norton

    WW Norton & Co The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings A Norton

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne's most widely read novel—as well as to the five short prose works—“Mrs. Hutchinson”, “Endicott and

    7 in stock

    £15.62

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    WW Norton & Co The House of the Seven Gables

    7 in stock

    Book Synopsis“The notes and the annotations in this and other Norton volumes most influence my decision in choosing this text. I thought the volume excellent. My students commented that it was very helpful.” —Margaret Murray, Western Connecticut State University

    7 in stock

    £12.34

  • The Scarlet Letter  The Norton Library

    WW Norton & Co The Scarlet Letter The Norton Library

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £7.99

  • The Blithedale Romance

    WW Norton & Co The Blithedale Romance

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne’s innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.

    10 in stock

    £23.30

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Scarlet Letter

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £6.06

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Penguin Putnam Inc The House of the Seven Gables

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £5.95

  • Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

    Dover Publications Inc. Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £6.58

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Dover Publications Inc. The Scarlet Letter

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £6.75

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Dover Publications Inc. The House of the Seven Gables

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    £8.67

  • A Wonder Book

    Dover Publications Inc. A Wonder Book

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £8.00

  • Scarlet Letter

    Dover Publications Inc. Scarlet Letter

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £15.29

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Harvard University Press The Scarlet Letter

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisHawthorne’s greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Table of Contents* Introduction to The Scarlet Letter * A Preface to the Text * Textual Introduction: The Scarlet Letter * Preface to the Second Edition * The Custom-House-Introductory * The Prison-Door * The Market-Place * The Recognition * The Interview * Hester at Her Needle * Pearl * The Governor's Hall * The Elf-Child and the Minister * The Leech * The Leech and His Patient * The Interior of a Heart * The Minister's Vigil * Another View of Hester * Hester and the Physician * Hester and Pearl * A Forest Walk * The Pastor and His Parishioner * A Flood of Sunshine * The Child at the Brook-Side * The Minister in a Maze * The New England Holiday * The Procession * The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter * Conclusion * Variants in the First Edition * Variants in the Second Edition * Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text * Textual Notes * Historical Collation * Word-Division * Special Collation List: Variants between the First and Second Editions * Appendix to the Third Printing

    15 in stock

    £24.26

  • Selected Stories

    Harvard University Press Selected Stories

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisDark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems.

    1 in stock

    £24.26

  • The Marble Faun

    Harvard University Press The Marble Faun

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    Book SynopsisThe Marble Faun mingles fable with fact in a mysterious tale of American artists liberated from New England mores in Rome. Hawthorne’s novel is ultimately less about freedom than its costs. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Marble Faun in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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    £36.51

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Letter

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £20.80

  • Ohio State University Press Works Vol I the Scarlet Letter 0001 Centenary

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £66.73

  • Ohio State University Press Works Vol IV the Marble Faun 0004 Cnetenary

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £90.65

  • Ohio State University Press Works Vol IX TwiceTold Tales 0009 Centenary

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £90.09

  • Ohio State University Press Works Vol XI the Snow Image and Uncollected 0011

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £71.06

  • Ohio State University Press Works Vol XIII the Elixir of Life Manuscript 0013

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £90.88

  • Ohio State University Press Letters 181343 v 15 Vol XV the Letters 18131843

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £90.81

  • Ohio State University Press Letters 184353 v 16 Vol XVI the Letters 18431853

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £91.29

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