The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Stern, Milton Stern

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English

Penguin Classics
28 January 1982

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

FThis 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 fa ade and exposed the true human condition.

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by: Milton Stern
Edited by: Milton Stern
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 292g
ISBN: 9780140390056
ISBN 10: 0140390057
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 28 January 1982
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and is best known today for his enigmatic tales and the novel The Scarlet Letter.

Reviews for The House of the Seven Gables

A large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction. --Henry James