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The house of the seven gables : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrations by David Frampton ; afterword by Henry James.
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 ٢a Romance,٣ 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 ٢the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.٣
Record details
- ISBN: 0895772191
- Physical Description: 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Edition: Reader's Digest edition.
- Publisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, [1985]
- Copyright: ©1985
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| Subject: | Families > Massachusetts > Salem > Fiction. Salem (Mass.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Paranormal fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stone County-Galena | F HAW (Text) | 31358000080858 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
