Alice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, & her memory still casts a long

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The story of Catherine the Great, lavishly portrayed by director Josef von Sternberg, with Marlene Dietrich (who else?) in the title role. German-born Princess Sophia (Dietrich) is married off to Russia's half-mad Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe), in the hope ...

This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment & expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New Engl&. 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 her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax. ...

The elderly husband of Hester Prynne returns unexpectedly to their New England village to find his wife nursing an illegitimate baby & wearing a scarlet letter A
- for Adulteress
- embroidered on her dress.

While her husband embarks on a vengeful hunt for the childs father, Hester refuses to name him because he holds a recpected position in the Puritan community. In desperation, the lovers make a secret plan to flee to Europe with their young daughter.

A classic tale that caused a stir in 1850 America & remains a milestone in American fiction.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781788280525
• Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 222
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5cm













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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic & unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished & is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she & Benton live, she finds a suspicious package
- possibly a bomb
- waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that

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Nell's going back to school... but now she's learning lessons of the heart.

Reception class teacher Nell Shackleton

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