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The house of the seven gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with an introduction by Milton R. Stern

(Penguin American library)

Penguin, 1981, c1981

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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Description

This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet - in part because of blemishes on his own family history - he also saw the darker side of the young nation. Like his twentieth-century heirs William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne peered behind propriety's facade and exposed the true human condition.

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  • NCID
    BA24426135
  • ISBN
    • 0140390057
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth
  • Pages/Volumes
    xl, 326 p.
  • Size
    19 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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