ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1964
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of Seven Gables
Signet, 1964
286 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism.

`God will give him blood to drink!` An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living...

Four Pyncheons play a part inside the blighted house: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse; Clifford, her feeble-minded brother; Phoebe, their young country cousin and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate whose greedy quest for secret wealth is marked by murder and terrible vengeance from a restless grave. ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne`s works are imbued with a mixture of the actual and the imaginary, and The House of the Seven Gables is an endur-ing example. The puritanical Colonel Pyncheon is the embodiment of Hawthorne`s own great grandfather, a judge at the Salem witch trials; the gloomy, gabled house typifies his own depressing home. It is this masterful blending of the spiritual and symbolic that allows Hawthorne`s haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen.

With an Afterword by Edward C. Sampson


Fiction, Classics, Natanijel Hotorn