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Book:Name: Laurie Lico Albanese - Hester (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.32 MB
Description:Title: Hester
Author: Laurie Lico Albanese
Language: English
Year: 2000
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
ISBN: 8371499086
Total pages: 282 str.
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A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials.
Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic--leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.
When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is...
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