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The House of The Seven Gables
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very good
- Librería
-
Jupiter , Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). 344 pp. Brown cloth publisher's binding with blind stamping to covers and spine. Gilt titles to spine. 1 cm missing to head/tail of repaired/reattached spine. Corners rubbed. Four page publisher catalogue dated March 1851. Signature of PO (B. Verplanck) to head of title page, pencil notation of same to rear paste-down endpaper. BAL 7604; Clark A17.1.b.
Sinopsis
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values, replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel." .
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El Jun 6 2016, un lector dijo:
I just found a hard back cover edition of this great book on my mother-in-laws book case. She received it for a Christmas present in 1941. It has a number 53 stamped into its back cover. I'm reading it now and enjoying the writers craft and story. I became intrigued with Hawthorne's style and decided to look it up. Thank you for your review and priceless information about the book and the author. I will treasure my copy and forever be grateful to my husbands sweet mother for giving me this window into the past through The House to the Seven Gables. A beautiful reading experience for years to come.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2594
- Título
- The House of The Seven Gables
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Editorial
- Ticknor, Reed and Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1851
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
Términos de venta
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Jupiter , Florida
Sobre Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA
Liberty Book Store, ABAA, FABA, IOBA, with offices in Jupiter Florida, is an online (and by appointment) antiquarian bookstore that BUYS and SELLS RARE and INTERESTING BOOKS. Our primary interests are the American Antebellum period, Association Copies, Automotive, Books With A Story, Floridiana, Maritime History, RR Donnelley bindings, and books of exceptional beauty or scarcity.
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- BAL
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- Paste-down
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- Cloth
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