South Branch and North Branch will be closed Wednesday, June 19th for Juneteenth.

 The Main Library in Frisco will be open 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Search Results


Showing 1 - 14 of 14 query time: 0.09s
Cover Image
Star rating for The Blithedale romance
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language:
English
Description:
First published in 1852, "The Blithedale Romance" is the third of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romantic novels. Set in the utopian communal farm called Blithedale in the 1840's, the novel tells the story of four inhabitants of the commune: Hollingsworth, a misogynist philanthropist obsessed with turning Blithedale into a colony for the reformation of criminals; Zenobia, a passionate feminist; Priscilla, a mysterious lady with a hidden agenda who turns out...
Cover Image
Star rating for The Blithedale romance
Publisher:
David McKay
Pub. Date:
[1852]
Language:
English
Cover Image
Star rating for The scarlet letter
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure:
1420L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Cover Image
Star rating for The portable Hawthorne
Series:
Language:
English
Description:
The Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances—The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun—as well as passages from his European journals and a sampling of his last, unfinished works. The editor’s...
Cover Image
Star rating for The Hawthorne Legacy - The Scarlet Letter
Publisher:
TMW Media
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
Description:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Hawthorne Legacy completes an overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life (1804-1864) and selected works published in nineteenth century American literature. Amongst his many novels, The Scarlet Letter which still reflects the moral and ethical dilemmas men and women face today, is explored in depth. This program is the first of three Masters of American Literature series produced and directed and hosted by James H. Bride ll to...

6. Novels

Cover Image
Star rating for Novels
Series:
Publisher:
Literary Classics of the United States :
Pub. Date:
[1983]
Language:
English
Description:
Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale Romance"...
Cover Image
Star rating for The works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language:
English
Cover Image
Star rating for The complete novels and selected tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language:
English
Cover Image
Star rating for Selected tales and sketches
Series:
Language:
English
Description:
The 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...
Cover Image
Star rating for Salem is my dwelling place
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date:
[1991]
Language:
English
Description:
In one of his public disavowals of autobiography, Nathaniel Hawthorne informed his readers that external traits "hide the man, instead of displaying him," directing them instead to "look through the whole range of his fictitious characters, good and evil, in order to detect any of his essential traits." In this multidimensional biography of America's first great storyteller, Edwin Haviland Miller answers Hawthorne's challenge and reveals the inner...
Cover Image
Star rating for The Cambridge introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
"As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most...
Cover Image
Star rating for The Blithedale romance
Publisher:
Norton
Pub. Date:
[1978]
Language:
English
Cover Image
Star rating for Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
Chelsea House
Pub. Date:
1986
Language:
English
Description:
Contains fourteen critical essays on the work of the American novelist.
Cover Image
Star rating for The Cambridge companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Hawthorne. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the Hawthorne's classic works, and on topics such as Hawthorne's relationship to history, to women, to politics, to early America. This Companion brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer the most comprehensive introduction available to Hawthorne's...

Didn't find it?

Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase.