The House of Seven Gables
by Hawthorne Nathaniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Endicott , New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Co, 1916. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. Type: Book The work is a familiar volume. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover. Light edge and shelf wear. Owners inscription on front end page. Covers have some minor light wrincles. Clean and tight pages with no markings in the book. 298 pages.
Synopsis
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." 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 "a Romance," 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 "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Folded Corner Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002178
- Title
- The House of Seven Gables
- Author
- Hawthorne Nathaniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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