{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-seven-gables-paperback","title":"The House of the Seven Gables - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMilton R. Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMilton R. Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eF\u003cb\u003eThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNathaniel 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 fa ade and exposed the true human condition.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his \u003ci\u003eTwice-Told Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter \u003c\/i\u003e(1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Seven Gables\u003c\/i\u003e (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44291051520102,"sku":"9780140390056","price":18.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YjlqM0d0c1lpaU42aTBFQnl1ZklGUT09.webp?v=1766854536","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-house-of-the-seven-gables-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}