The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Libros -  - 9798648392427 - 1 de junio de 2020
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The Scarlet Letter

In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old King Derby, was a bustling wharf, -but which is now burdened with decayed wooden warehouses, and exhibits few or no symptoms of commercial life; except, perhaps, a bark or brig, half-way down its melancholy length, discharging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood, -at the head, I say, of this dilapidated wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the row of buildings, the track of many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass, -here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbor, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military post of Uncle Sam's government is here establish

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Publicado 1 de junio de 2020
ISBN13 9798648392427
Páginas 214
Dimensiones 216 × 280 × 11 mm   ·   508 g
Lengua Inglés  

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