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The House of the Seven Gables (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1981
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Stern, Milton R. [Introduction]
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- Title The House of the Seven Gables (Penguin Classics)
- Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Stern, Milton R. [Introduction]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1981-08-27
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140390057-3-22585733
- ISBN 9780140390056 / 0140390057
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1320
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81002828
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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."