This is an illustrated guide to varieties, cultivation and care, with step-by-step instructions and over 135 beautiful photographs. It is a handy, practical guide to growing and caring for rhododendrons, with instructions for planting outdoors and in containers, mulching, pruning and propagation. It[...]

Animal protection is one of the most passionately debated issues of our day. In light of recent legislation and intensified pressure put on activists around the world, those advocates fighting for animal liberation or even animal welfare need a single resource covering the major, and some minor, mod[...]

Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter "A" as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for hersel[...]

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 he[...]

Hawthorne's classic novel is a searing condemnation of hypocrisy and callousness in Puritan America. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. Because she refuses to reveal the identity of her lov[...]

A gothic drama, set in Puritan Boston, that tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair. Branded with a scarlet letter A and isolated in a strict conformist community intent on pushing her to the fringes of this wild country, Hester struggles to forge a ne[...]

Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms and impossible disappearances. Nothing Is Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam's most extraordinary cases solved between 1932 and 1936.[...]

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpts: "e;I am afraid this ghost story will bear a very faded aspect when transferred to paper. Whatever [...]