Septimius Felton, or, The Elixir of Life

Hester Prynne wears a scarlet A on her chest in Puritan Boston while the father of her child keeps his secret from the pulpit. Hawthorne's masterpiece on sin, shame and hypocrisy, in a clean Global Grey edition.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A wizard's dying curse follows the Pyncheon family for two centuries inside their dark Salem mansion. Hawthorne's own favorite among his novels, about inherited guilt and a house that will not forget.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A poet joins a utopian farm in Massachusetts and gets caught between a passionate feminist, a fragile seamstress and a reformer who will use anyone. Drawn from Hawthorne's own months at Brook Farm.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Three artists in Rome and a young Italian who looks just like a statue of a faun share a crime that changes all of them. Hawthorne's last finished novel, both volumes in one file.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pale scholar, a college president's ward and a sinister stranger in a small New England college town. Hawthorne's first novel, published anonymously in 1828 and later hunted down and burned by its own author.

Nathaniel Hawthorne