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Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century. Hawthorne's writing is unique as it often featured moral struggles among the Puritans in and around New England. Hawthorne's books became some of the most famous works of dark romanticism and his novel The Scarlet Letter is considered a classic in American literature. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, tells the story of Hester Prynne, a woman who is shamed after conceiving a daughter through an affair. The book is set in Puritan Boston during the middle of the 17th-century. The House of the Seven Gables, published in 1851, is a Gothic novel that ranks as Hawthorne's most popular work after The Scarlet Letter. The action centers around a New England family and their ancestral home. The book, which has themes of guilt and retribution, is based off a house which belonged to Hawthorne's ancestors who played a role in the Salem Witch Trials.
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A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.
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The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables
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Signet Classics, 1981
ISBN 10 : 0451519086
ISBN 13 : 9780451519085
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The Scarlet Letter and the House of Seven Gables
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Signet/New American Library, 1981
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ISBN 13 : 9780451519085
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paperback. No Jacket. New York. 1981. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0451519086. Introduction by James R. Mellow. 278 pages. paperback. CE1908. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. DESCRIPTION - THE SCARLET LETTER - An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband - these are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth - Century Boston. Tremendously moving, rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of shame and redemption reveals Hawthorne's concern with the New England past and its influence on American attitudes. From his dramatic illumination of the struggles between mind and heart, dogma and self - reliance, he fashioned one of the masterpieces of fiction. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES - An evil house, cursed by a man hanged for witchcraft, haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living - this is Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. Within its walls dwell the Pyncheons: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse; Clifford, her feebleminded brother; Phoebe, their young country cousin. and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate. Both the people and the place are drawn from a mixture of the actual and the imaginary. Colonel Pyncheon is based on Hawthorne's great grandfather, the gloomy, gabled house on his own home. This masterful blending of the spiritual and symbolic allows Hawthorne's haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen. inventory #39053 Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. N° de réf. du vendeur z39053
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The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables
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ISBN 10 : 0451519086
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