Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Stern, Milton R.; Stern, Milton R.; Stern, Milton R. |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 8/27/1981 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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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 – 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 façade and exposed the true human condition.
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