House of the Seven Gables, The

Playaway Audio - "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm. On my occasional visits to the town aforesaid, I seldom failed to turn down Pyncheon Street, for the sake of passing through the shadow of these two antiquities -- the great elm-tree and the weather-beaten edifice." -- Excerpt 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.

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Donada Peters (Read by)
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: Not Available
ISBN: 9781602525306
Category: Book
Subcategory: Audio
Genre: Playaway
Added: June 18, 2014

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