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"Boston, mid-17th century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious Puritan neighbors. Holding her illegitimate child to her breast and bearing a bright scarlet letter 'A' embroidered on her bodice, Hester must now struggle to create a new life for herself and her child in this harsh and unforgiving community. When her missing spouse reappears and takes up residence in town under an assumed...
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When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where...
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In 1687, Kit Tyler moves from the Caribbean to Connecticut Colony. Feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, she befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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"Sepan cuantos " volume 631
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[2012]
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5. edición.
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Español
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Caught in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman, stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child from an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for "Adulteress" embroidered on her dress.
11) Crow hollow
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[2015]
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Widowed Puritan, Prudence Cotton, needs to find her daughter who was captured by Nipmuc Indians. She receives help from British agent James Bailey who has arrived to investigate the murder of widow Cotton's husband but agrees to help her.
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Hawthorne's novel of adultery in Puritan Boston. Five short works related to The Scarlet Letter, sharing its themes of sin, morality, guilt, and shame. Expanded explanatory annotations and a new preface by Leland S. Person. Key passages from Hawthorne's letters and notebooks. New critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John ronan, and John F. Birk A chronology and an updated Select Bibliography....
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