The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction by Denis Donoghue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Series:

John Harvard library.

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haunted houses--Fiction.

Haunted houses.

Salem (Mass.)--Fiction.

Salem (Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate.” Many critics have faulted the novel for its explaining away of hereditary guilt or its contradictory denial of it. Denis Donoghue instructs the reader in a fresh appreciation of the novel. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The House of the Seven Gables in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Contributors

Note on the Text

Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

Preface

I. The Old Pyncheon Family

II. The Little Shop-Window

III. The First Customer

IV. A Day Behind the Counter

V. May and November

VI. Maule’s Well

VII. The Guest

VIII. The Pyncheon of To-Day

IX. Clifford and Phoebe

X. The Pyncheon-Garden

XI. The Arched Window

XII. The Daguerreotypist

XIII. Alice Pyncheon

XIV. Phoebe’s Good Bye

XV. The Scowl and Smile

XVI. Clifford’s Chamber

XVII. The Flight of Two Owls

XVIII. Governor Pyncheon

XIX. Alice’s Posies

XX. The Flower of Eden

XXI. The Departure

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Originally published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1965.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-27358-3

OCLC:

1283845229