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The House of the Seven Gables

By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The House of the Seven Gables is a gripping psychological drama portraying the tragic saga of the Pyncheon family, cursed through generations due to their founder's sin of theft. Set against the backdrop of 1840s New England, the novel explores themes of crime, retribution, and redemption as love ultimately seeks to exorcise the dark legacy haunting the family and their ancestral home.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel will appeal to readers interested in classic American literature, historical fiction, and stories exploring moral complexity and family legacies.

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Reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. This novel presents a psychological drama, which 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.

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This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s.

The House of the Seven Gables is Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerning 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—partly due to 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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Critically acclaimed, Henry James praised the novel as "a large and generous production" filled with a profound reflection on human life, marking it as a great work of fiction.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140390056

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 January 1982

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Edited by Milton Stern
  • Introduction by Milton Stern

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 368

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne Penguin Books Penguin Classics

About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and is best known today for his enigmatic tales and the novel The Scarlet Letter.

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