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This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet - in part because of blemishes on his own family history - he also saw the darker side of the young nation. Like his twentieth-century heirs William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne peered behind propriety's facade and exposed the true human condition.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: House of the Seven Gables
• Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780140390056
• ISBN: 0140390057
• ID: 04023855
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 130 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 1982

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