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The House of the Seven Gables

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Katherine Howe
Afterword by Brenda Wineapple

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Katherine Howe
Afterword by Brenda Wineapple

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Katherine Howe
Afterword by Brenda Wineapple

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by Katherine Howe
Afterword by Brenda Wineapple

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    About The House of the Seven Gables

    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.

    About The House of the Seven Gables

    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."

    This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text.

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    About Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–64) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bowdoin College. His first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously in 1828, followed by several collections of short stories, including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an… More about Nathaniel Hawthorne

    About Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1805–64) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bowdoin College. His first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously in 1828, followed by several collections of short stories, including Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an… More about Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Gothic & Horror | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    Oct 05, 2010 | 304 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451531629

    Category: Fiction Classics | Gothic & Horror | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Signet
    Oct 05, 2010 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9781101198278

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