The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics) Mass market paperback - 2010
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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- very good
- Paperback
A tale of an evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by ghosts of its dead and the terror of its living. Hawthorne's classic work now features a new Introduction. Revised reissue.
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- Title The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics)
- Author Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Good Condition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet
- Date 2010
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0451531620I4N00
- ISBN 9780451531629 / 0451531620
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.3 x 0.9 in (17.02 x 10.92 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1320
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Occult fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011381588
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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.".From the publisher
First Edition Identification
Ticknor, Reeds and Fields published a First Printing, First Edition in London, 1851. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth with gold lettering present on the spine
Heritage press published a First Edition in Norwalk, Connecticut, 1963.
