| The House of the Seven Gables Contributor(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Author), Howe, Katherine (Introduction by), Wineapple, Brenda (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451531620 ISBN-13: 9780451531629 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Gothic - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011381588 |
| Lexile Measure: 1320 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.3" W x 6.7" (0.35 lbs) 304 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 12786 Reading Level: 11.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 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 fa ade and exposed the true human condition. |