The Scarlet Letter And the House of the Seven Gables: A Romance - Couverture souple

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451519086 ISBN 13 : 9780451519085

Editeur : Penguin, 1991

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451519086
• ISBN 13: 9780451519085
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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