Who Was Charles Darwin?

Deborah Hopkinson

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa...

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an u...