The House of the Seven Gables (Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics) [Hardcover] Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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About This Item
JM Dent. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. London; 1915; brown cloth covered hardboard with black and gold details; some wrinkling of cover and wear at edges; Previous owner's name on on front endpaper, half title page, rear endpaper; few pencil marking throughout; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; 297 pages
Synopsis
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
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- The House of the Seven Gables (Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics) [Hardcover] Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- JM Dent
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