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Title details for The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Available

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joan Allen
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A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village houses the distinguished Pyncheon family, who are haunted by a centuries old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathes fresh air and sunshine into the musty, decaying room in their lives. Hawthorne call The House Of the seven Gables a "Romance" drawing on the Gothic tradition of exploiting the supernatural. A powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, Henry James called this work "the closet approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.

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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Abridged

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  • File size: 161090 KB
  • Release date: April 17, 2007
  • Duration: 05:35:36

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  • File size: 161689 KB
  • Release date: April 17, 2007
  • Duration: 05:35:36
  • Number of parts: 8
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Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1320
Text Difficulty:10-12

A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village houses the distinguished Pyncheon family, who are haunted by a centuries old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathes fresh air and sunshine into the musty, decaying room in their lives. Hawthorne call The House Of the seven Gables a "Romance" drawing on the Gothic tradition of exploiting the supernatural. A powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, Henry James called this work "the closet approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.

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Classic Literature Fiction