The House of the Seven Gables (The Penguin American Library) - Softcover

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140390057 ISBN 13: 9780140390056

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1981

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Book by Hawthorne Nathaniel

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"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

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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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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0140390057
• ISBN 13: 9780140390056
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Stern Milton R.