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The House of the Seven Gables (Movie tie-in)
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good. Considerable reading stress to illustrated covers. Firm binding. Vertical cover creasing.
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York.: A Pocket Book, #52., 1940. 2nd printing, same April as 1st Pocket. Complete & Unabridged.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Considerable reading stress to illustrated covers. Firm binding. Vertical cover creasing.. 1 341 p. Mass-market paperback. 341 p., 18 cm. Light red page block dye. Durable red end papers. Firm binding. In Essex County, Massachusetts, 18th century author Nathaniel Hawthorne has set his fiction, The House of the Seven Gables, which has become an American Classic in the backdrop of the historic Salem Witch Trials. Preface, unsigned, is dated 1851, inscribed in Lenox, the western end of the state. Central to the story is the "Old Pyncheon Family" living in "a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing toward various points of the compass, and a huge clustered chimney in the midst". There is an intriguing mystery "supplied in the hereditary curse resting upon the family". Reference is made on the back cover to the Universal Studios recent movie release, same as book title, starring Margaret Lindsay as Hepzibah and Nan Gray as little Phoebe.
Synopsis
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." In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
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Reviews
On Jun 6 2016, a reader said:
I just found a hard back cover edition of this great book on my mother-in-laws book case. She received it for a Christmas present in 1941. It has a number 53 stamped into its back cover. I'm reading it now and enjoying the writers craft and story. I became intrigued with Hawthorne's style and decided to look it up. Thank you for your review and priceless information about the book and the author. I will treasure my copy and forever be grateful to my husbands sweet mother for giving me this window into the past through The House to the Seven Gables. A beautiful reading experience for years to come.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.F6770011314
- Title
- The House of the Seven Gables (Movie tie-in)
- Author
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Considerable reading stress to illustrated covers. Firm binding. Vertical cover creasing.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd printing, same April as 1st Pocket. Complete & Unabridge
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- A Pocket Book, #52.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Universal Studios recent movie release, starring Margaret Lindsay as Hepzibah and Nan Gray as little Phoebe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her; she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes. No pressure. Hedgehogs do have yearnings. If you should visit by chance or by appointment, enjoy our old New Hampshire farmhouse location alongside the Sugar River and its companion recreation Rail Trail, nearby two historic railroad covered bridges just off Chandlers Mill Road. Feel welcome. -- Lucy G Wells, proprietor.
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