The House of the Seven Gables

Authors: Stern, Milton R. (INT) & Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC004000, FIC027040
ISBN: 9781101199619, Related ISBNs: 0140390057, 110119961X, 9780140390056, 9781101199619
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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 façade and exposed the true human condition.
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