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The House of the Seven Gables

Name: The House of the Seven Gables
Brand: Modern Library
SKU: 9780375756870
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Contributors:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Oliver (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Modern Library

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Classics, Thrillers, Occult & Supernatural

Book Topic:

Historical

Series:

Modern Library Classics

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Release Date:

1/9/2001

ISBN 13:

9780375756870

Weight:

0.51 lbs

Size:

8.31 x 4.87 x 0.72 inches

Pages:

336

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Description

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history."

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text.

About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and made his ambition to be a writer while still a teenager. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where the poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years travelling in New England and writing short stories before his best-known novel The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. His writing was not at first financially rewarding and he worked as measurer and surveyor in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses. In 1853 he was sent to Liverpool as American consul and then lived in Italy before returning to the US in 1860, where he died in his sleep four years later.