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 Scarlet Letter Collins Classics

    HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter Collins Classics

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    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.

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    £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

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    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

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    £6.02

  • Selected Stories

    Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Selected Stories

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    £6.29

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Pan Macmillan The Scarlet Letter

    15 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.

    15 in stock

    £9.89

  • 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

    Vintage Publishing The Scarlet Letter

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    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 *

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    £7.59

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Penguin Books Ltd The House of the Seven Gables

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    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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    £8.99

  • Hawthornes Short Stories Vintage Classics

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Hawthornes Short Stories Vintage Classics

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    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

  • The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings  A Norton

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

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    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

  • Scarlet Letter

    Dover Publications Inc. Scarlet Letter

    15 in stock

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    15 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

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    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 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

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    10 in stock

    £66.73

  • 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

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    10 in stock

    £90.88

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

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    £90.81

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

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    10 in stock

    £91.29

  • Ohio State University Press Letters 185356 v 17 Vol XVII the Letters 18531856

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £113.78

  • Ohio State University Press Letters 185763 v 18 Vol XVIII the Letters

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £89.25

  • Mosses from an Old Manse

    Lulu Press Mosses from an Old Manse

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £10.89

  • Twenty Days With Julian and Little Bunny

    Legare Street Press Twenty Days With Julian and Little Bunny

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £12.95

  • Classical Mythology

    Arcturus Publishing Ltd Classical Mythology

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisMeet legendary heroes, powerful goddesses and vengeful monsters in this beautiful hardback collection of Greek and Roman mythology, featuring classic full-colour illustrations.The myths and legends of the ancient world are vividly told here by master storytellers of the 19th century, Thomas Bulfinch and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Discover how Theseus defeated the Minotaur, why the witch Circe turned the men into swine and more in this compendium of epic tales.This treasury captures the beauty and magnificence of these timeless myths, featuring enchanting Pre-Raphaelite and art nouveau illustrations in full-colour by Walter Crane and John William Waterhouse, among others.Stories include:• Echo and Narcissus• Juno and her rivals• Pygmalion• Cupid and Psyche• The Gorgon''s Head• Cadmus and the Dragon''s Teeth• The Pomegranate Seeds

    15 in stock

    £16.99

  • Greek Mythology

    Arcturus Publishing Greek Mythology

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe stories in this collection have been re-told by writers such as James Baldwin, Ferdinand Schmidt, Carl Frederich Becker, Olivia Coolidge, V. C. Turnbull and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    15 in stock

    £8.54

  • Level 1 The House of the Seven Gables Book and CD

    Pearson Education Level 1 The House of the Seven Gables Book and CD

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £11.66

  • L2Scarlet Letter Book  MP3 Pack

    Pearson Education L2Scarlet Letter Book MP3 Pack

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £11.87

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    Simon & Schuster The House of the Seven Gables

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £6.94

  • The Great Stone Face

    1st World Library - Literary Society The Great Stone Face

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £14.97

  • Tanglewood Tales

    1st World Library - Literary Society Tanglewood Tales

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £10.12

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