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When Milo moves into a new house, his dog Dandy discovers a mysterious locked door and a hidden key. Bravely, Milo opens the door and finds himself sucked into a magical world of adventure. In this first book in a new series, Milo joins a band of pirates, led by the notorious Blackbeard. This book is ideal for parents to listen along with children aged three to eight years old.

Award-winning audiobook narrator and storyteller Mike Vendetti takes us back to The Boston Massacre as told by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which took place on March 3, 1770. When the smoke cleared, 11 of the sons of New England lay stretched upon the street. Some, sorely wounded, were struggling to rise again. Others stirred not, nor groaned, for they were past all pain. Blood was streaming upon the snow.

I didn’t think I’d ever see you again. Reed’s days are full of unexpected surprises - pretty par for the course as the principal of the only Catholic school in a small town, but there’s one surprise he wasn’t prepared for, and that was Dominic O’Halloran. God help me, I want you. Dominic has spent decades thinking about the life he could have lived.

Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

Hawthorne es conocido sobre todo por sus relatos breves, muchas veces de contenido siniestro, al gusto de la época, y por sus cuatros novelas largas. La letra escarlata, La casa de los siete tejados, La novela de Blithedale y El fauno de mármol.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

More classic ghost stories from the golden age of spookiness. Eight stories by eight great writers, curated for your hair-raising pleasure. Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Company weave marvelous spells that whisk you into times and places you never thought you'd experience. Frightful and delightful.

The Marble Faun of 1860 was the last of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four major romances. Set in Italy, the narrative blends elements of the travel guide, fable, and gothic novel. The main characters include Miriam, a beautiful painter with a mysterious past who is compared to Beatrice, Cleopatra and Eve, and Hilda, an innocent young woman with strong moral principles. The sculptor Kenyon has an eye for Hilda, whilst Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, is besotted by Miriam. Donatello bears a resemblance to the statue type called the Faun of Praxiteles.

Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an 1837 collection of stories that had previously appeared in literary journals like Atlantic Souvenir and The Token. The stories explore ideas of pride and sin through allegory in a New England setting. Contemporaries of Hawthorne, including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, praised the book. Twice-Told Tales includes stories like "Sunday at Home", "The Wedding-Knell", "The Minister's Black Veil", "The Maypole of Merry Mount", "The Gentle Boy", "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe", and more.

Do you want to make positive changes in your life and attract others to you? Would you like to be able to overcome the challenges that you face and overcome procrastination? You can do it all with neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). NLP is about making changes in perception, using responsible communication, and developing choices. It can help us create responses in given situations and assist with the way in which we communicate what we want.

Your skin is your canvas required to paint a masterpiece. The skin radiates the beauty of your inner soul. It is essential that you know the proper skin techniques to allow your beauty to radiate and remain alive. This audiobook provides in-depth knowledge that educates a person on how to care for their skin. It explores beauty treatments that are easy to master. It's narrated in simple-to-understand language that anyone can apply.

The Christmas Banquet mentioned in the title is an annual feast, funded by an old misanthrope, in which the 10 most miserable people who can be found are gathered together for the holiday. Each year the guests chosen are different, but Gervaise Hastings, a man unafflicted by any obvious misfortune, is included year after year.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, a tale of unspeakable devilry - of blatant, bacchanalian Satanism - that probes and prods the soul of America, whispering, "What is truth?" through the demonic cacophony of a Witch's Sabbath.

A remarkable collection, centering on tales situated in the White Mountains region. The hero in the first tale turns out to be the actual Great Stone Face, but it will take the villagers and himself a lifetime to realize this! The collection includes three other fascinating short stories: The Ambitious Guest, The Great Carbuncle and Sketches from Memory.

The Blithedale Romance (1852) by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark romantic novel set in the farming commune of Blithedale where some utopian city slickers have gathered in order to improve the world. The narrator, Miles Coverdale, gets acquainted with the reformer Hollingsworth, the feminist Zenobia, her sister Priscilla, her father Old Moodie, and Professor Westervelt. They pursue their individual egotistical paths and get entangled in their conflicting ambitions.

In a sleepy, little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation - or its downfall.

The Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th-century Boston, it follows the plight of Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a child out of wedlock, refuses to name the father, and is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne reaches back to America’s Puritan roots to probe themes of lust, sin, guilt, and redemption. This Essential Classics edition includes a new introduction by Professor Vivian Heller, PhD, in literature and modern studies from Yale University.

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