The House of the Seven Gables Paperback / softback
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited by Michael Davitt (J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature and Eloquence, J. L Bell
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion.
It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft.
From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries `God will give him blood to drink!' The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants in the crumbling mansion for the next century and a half. Hawthorne called his novel a `Romance', drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural.
Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human nature and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write `a more natural and healthy product of my mind', a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination.
The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.
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- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780199539123
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199539123
