House of the Seven Gables

Name: House of the Seven Gables
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ISBN: 9780393924763

ISBN-10: 0393924769

ISBN-13: 9780393924763

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Nathaniel. Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

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"Hawthorne's tale about the brooding hold of the past over the present is a complex one, twisting and turning its way back through many generations of a venerable New England family, one of whose members was accused of witchcraft in 17th century Salem. More than 200 years later, we meet the family in its decaying, gabled mansion, still haunted by the presence of dead ancestors: Hepzibah, an elderly gentlewoman fallen on bad times; her ineffectual brother, Clifford; and young Phoebe, a country maiden who cheerfully takes it upon herself to care for her two doddering relations. There's also Holgrave, a free-spirited daguerreotypist, who makes a surprising transformation into conventional…

Book details

List price: $11.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 0.51" wide x 0.83" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism.