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The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Milton Stern
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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-... more info>>
Category: Classic Literature
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