Mosses from an old manse
These stories are not “sinister,” as the cover claims, except in a slight proportion; they are indeed fantastic, as they tend toward allegory. In more than one, we encounter that parade of stock characters...
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales
The author was born and lived in the USA in the first decades of the 19th century. In these fifteen stories, which he published throughout his life, the imprint of the events linked to the formation of the...
The House of Seven Gables
At the end of the 17th century, in a small town in New England, Colonel Pyncheon decided to build an overlooking mansion — the "house of the seven roofs" that originates the title of the book — on the place...
The Yarn of a Yankee Privateer
In the years of American Independence, the hostilities between the British Crown and the colonists already settled in the territory of present-day North America also took place at sea, with all the tricks...
The Scarlet Letter
Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension...
Libro de las maravillas para chicos y chicas
A re-working of different Greek and Latin myths. J.V. (2007)