The House of the Seven Gables
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| Verlag | Penguin UK |
| Auflage | 1982 |
| Seiten | 326 |
| Format | 13,1 x 19,8 x 1,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 268 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 0140390057 |
| EAN | 9780140390056 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14039005EA |
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 facade and exposed the true human condition.
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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
