Historical Letters

Discover the timeless tale of love, sin, and redemption with "The Scarlet Letter: Adapted for Modern Readers." This refreshed edition presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic through a contemporary lens, featuring clean formatting, updated typography, and lightly clarified language. Perfect for today's audience, it offers an easier yet authentic reading experience, making Hawthorne's intricate prose and profound themes more accessible without losing the original's depth and nuance. Set against the rigid backdrop of 17th-century Puritan New England, this novel explores themes of guilt, ...

The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series from celebrated author Laurie K. King, A Letter of Mary. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss...

A short, angst-free novella that occurs in the months after Hunsford. Darcy, realizing his mistakes, confesses his misdeeds to Bingley earlier, even before Elizabeth has the chance to visit Pemberley. As a result, Bingley returns to Hertfordshire in June, while Darcy retreats to Pemberley to reflect on his actions.

In the heart of Victorian London, where smoke dimmed the sky and conscience labored beneath industry’s weight, voices once thought forgotten still whisper through the fog. Letters from the Shadowed City gathers their words—dispatches written by clerks, midwives, constables, and widows, each struggling to preserve mercy amid machinery. These letters are the city’s true confessions, written in the ink of endurance. The nineteenth century was an age of noise: the din of factories, the clatter of carriages, the endless turning of machines. Yet beneath that mechanical rhythm lived another ...

Thirty-seven letters were hidden behind an old hearth. They were never meant to be found. When Elowen Vey inherits an aging house in Calder Row from her late uncle, Orin, she expects dust, forgotten rooms, and the remains of a quiet life. Instead, she discovers a bundle of letters concealed...

The Navigator’s Letter brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II, chronicling a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood, and love. One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on August 1, 1943, over the oil fields at...

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered to be one of the greatest examples of true American literature. Its excellency of topic, characterization, and description has made it a permanent part of our history. Set in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s, it describes the life of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman whose existence is marred by sin. The real genius of the book is found in its description.

When the German march across Europe reaches France, young Michelle Naget and her family join the throngs fleeing for safety. But their flight ends in capture by the Nazis, with one member of the family taken, while the rest of the family is sent back to their village of Braquis, France, to serve the enemy who has commandeered their home.

Lady Annabelle Rockwood, a timid debutante, invents a Scottish fiancé, Captain Campbell, to escape marriage. For years, she pours her secrets and desires into letters, believing no one reads them. When her uncle dies and leaves her a Highland castle, she kills off her imaginary fiancé, no longer needing him—but the real Captain Campbell soon arrives, claiming his right to marry her… Captain Callum Campbell never expected lovesick letters from a stranger, and yet somehow they become his lifeline during the horrors of war in France. Furious at his “death” in her final letter, he ...

📜 Inspired by an incredible true story, this is an unforgettable novel about love, loss and one impossible choice𓂃🪶 ‘I loved this… Wonderful… Really tugged at my heart strings… My favourite… Had everything I love’ Goodreads Reviewer ★★★★★ ‘OMG… Excellent. Chefs...

A blacksmith with a quiet heart. A candy maker with big dreams. A matchmaking child who believes in miracles—and a town where danger hides behind friendly smiles. In Cedar Ridge, Montana, Emily Harper is known for two things: her sweet shop’s famous candy, and her steady determination to grow the family business. Love isn't on her radar—especially not with so much on her plate. But when a tumble off a ladder lands her in the arms of the town’s brooding blacksmith, everything changes. Thomas Benton never planned on falling again. As a widower raising a spirited six-year-old and ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne spent his entire career writing about one thing: the weight of what his ancestors had done, and what America refused to remember about itself. His great-great-grandfather was a judge at the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne added the "w" to his name in part to distance himself from that inheritance. It didn't work. The past — Puritan severity, inherited guilt, the violence concealed beneath respectability — runs through every page he wrote. He is the American novelist of conscience, the writer who understood before anyone else that the national mythology of innocence and...

Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan and Joe Alwyn From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, a sophisticated, page-turning double love story spanning forty years A sophisticated...

What if delivering Christmas charity baskets meant spending every snowy mile with the man who called you barely tolerable? Every St. Thomas’s Day, Elizabeth’s grandfather delivers baskets to the poor of Lambton—each one filled with provisions and a secret, unsigned letter of encouragement. This year, his granddaughter has come to help. So has Fitzwilliam Darcy, who has spent weeks by Grandpa Gardiner’s fire, insisting that a certain Hertfordshire lady means absolutely nothing to him. Her family is vulgar. Her fine eyes are irrelevant. He is entirely indifferent. Then Elizabeth ...

'A great book, truly hard to put down. Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times - all hallmarks of a bestseller' Lesley Pearse on The Girl in the Letter 'I was gripped by The Girl in the Letter. The story is compelling, twisty, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking. A novel...

Mme. Clicquot builds her legacy as the maker of France’s best champagne while, in the future, a modern divorcée looks to her letters for inspiration in this vibrant dual-timeline historical fiction novel that is “sheer, sparkling perfection” (Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling...

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, magnum opus, tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth two years after separation from her husband and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her breast as punishment for her adultery. She resists all attempts of the 17th century Boston clergy to make her reveal the name of her child’s father while she struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

Hester Prynne commits adultery in a Puritan settlement and, as a result, is "branded" for the rest of her life by having to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her breast. Throughout the story, a complex relationship develops between Hester, her lover, her husband, and her daughter.

Germany, 1939. A tumbledown farmhouse, on the outskirts of a close-knit village in the heart of the rolling hills of Bavaria. A once happy family home torn apart by Nazi rule. And one young girl who refuses to give up on what she believes in...London, 2018: When 94-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany - and it sends shivers down her spine....

The death of one’s spirit should come with a great deal of noise: weeping and wailing, if not thunder or the roar of a fire. Elizabeth could not have imagined a spirit forced into darkness by something so mundane as the scratch of pen on paper. Elizabeth Bennet has been certain of many things in her life: her place in society, the love of her family, her ability to choose her own future, and her ability to accurately judge the character of those she meets. Three days after the Netherfield Ball, a near tragedy shakes that foundation.