The land of Terre d' Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.Phedre no Delaunay is a woman born with a scarlet mote in her left eye and sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, and he was the first one to recognize who and what she is:
This complete study edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel The Scarlet Letter includes information about Puritan life, questions, writing ideas, projects, and a map to help students explore this story of guilt and redemption. Also included is "The Custom-House", Hawthorne's satiric introduction to The Scarlet Letter.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by raising important issues in key passages - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages, and terms - Words for Everyday Use entries define and give pronunciations for difficult terms
n an empty house lies a dead man. There are no wounds on his body. On the wall, the word RACHE - German for 'revenge' - is written in blood. With the help of his friend Doctor Watson, can Sherlock Holmes use his deductive powers to find the murderer? Set in London in the 1880s, A Study in Scarlet is the first Holmes and watson mystery, the beginning of a long and famous partnership.
Set in 17th century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne gives birth to an illegitimate child and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter 'A' as a sign of her adultery. Hester refuses to reveal the identity of her lover, and is forced to lead a life of humiliation. Meanwhile, Hester's husband settles in Boston and after making her swear to keep his identity secret, tries to discover who Hester's secret lover is.
Words such as cardinal and scarlet can describe the same color but they take on markedly different meanings when we use them to consider the worth of a cardinal man or a scarlet woman. The comparison seems to conjure significantly more prejudice when we consider that a cardinal man is revered as righteous while a scarlet woman is reviled as wicked, particularly in terms of her sexual activity. In a similar way, by contrasting other pairs of words, we can see how they too invite discriminatory connotations in terms of what we value: Christian and pagan, crusade and jihad, highbrow and lowbrow, wizard and witch, right and left, white and black.
