The House of the Seven Gables (Bantam Classics)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
ISBN 10: 0553212702 ISBN 13: 9780553212709
Verlag: Bantam Classics, 1981
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Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00107298765
Inhaltsangabe:
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.”
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and made his ambition to be a writer while still a teenager. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years travelling in New England and writing short stories before his best-known novel The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. His writing was not at first financially rewarding and he worked as measurer and surveyor in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses. In 1853 he was sent to Liverpool as American consul and then lived in Italy before returning to the US in 1860, where he died in his sleep four years later.
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Titel: The House of the Seven Gables (Bantam ...
Verlag: Bantam Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good