The House of the Seven Gables (Penguin Classics)
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The House of the Seven Gables (Penguin Classics)

Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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ISBN: 9780140390056

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FThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s....
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FThis 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 façade and exposed the true human condition.

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