The House of the Seven Gables
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2010
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451531629 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451531620 |
| Author: | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katherine Howe, Brenda Wineapple |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 107mm x 168mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Critics Review
“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
“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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the son and grandson of New England seafarers and grew up in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, Hawthorne dedicated himself to becoming a writer. He struggled for twelve years before achieving modest success with his collection of short stories, Twice-Told Tales, published in 1837.
His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. Hawthorne gained significant recognition for The Scarlet Letter (1850), followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). He later served as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, for four years and traveled in Italy before returning to Massachusetts in 1860. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, reportedly depressed, weary of writing, and in failing health.
Brenda Wineapple, author of Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein and Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner, is currently writing a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College and has been featured on C-Span’s American Writers series.
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