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Book The House of the Seven Gables

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Seven Gables

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1913 edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 classic of American literature is illustrated with 16 photographs of the many-gabled mansion in Salem, Massachusetts.

Book The House of the Seven Gables  1851  by

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-29
  • ISBN : 9781542817318
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables 1851 by written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The book was well received upon publication and later had a strong influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. The House of the Seven Gables has been adapted several times to film and television.

Book The Snow Image and Other Twice told Tales

Download or read book The Snow Image and Other Twice told Tales written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady Eleanore s Mantle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Editions Zulma
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9782843043079
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Lady Eleanore s Mantle written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Editions Zulma. This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. Giovanni knew not what to dread; still less did be know what to hope; yet hope and dread kept a continual warfare in his breast, alternately vanquishing one another and starting up afresh to renew the content. Blessed are ail simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions." These four spellbinding stories are variations on the struggle between good and evil; prefigurations, one might say, of The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in the historically rich and guilt-ridden city of Salem; one of his ancestors did indeed persecute the Salem witches. After a first novel in 1828, be devoted himself to increasingly successful short stories. In 1850, The Scarlet Letter brought him fame at last.

Book The House of the Seven Gables  1851

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-12-02
  • ISBN : 9781790645374
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables 1851 written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a gabled house in Salem, MA, belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll, and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

Book Wieland  Or  The Transformation

Download or read book Wieland Or The Transformation written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book Hawthorne

Download or read book Hawthorne written by Brenda Wineapple and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.

Book The Making of My Fair Lady

Download or read book The Making of My Fair Lady written by Keith Garebian and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common lament was Broadway will never be the same! when My Fair Lady finally ended its stellar run the night of Sunday, September 30, 1962. Millions of people had seen the show over six years and had helped break box-office records, even though Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, and Robert Coote did not stay with the cast throughout the six-year run. MyFair Lady used the substance and wit of George Bernard Shaw to add a new dimension to the Broadway libretto.

Book The House of the Seven Gables

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1981-08-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FThis 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.

Book The House of the Seven Gables  Annotated

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables Annotated written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The House of the Seven Gables is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1851, generally recognized as the best American novel of this period. It takes place at the homonymous house in Salem, Massachusetts.The House of Seven Roofs is set for a house, undoubtedly peculiar, built in the 17th century and located in downtown Salem, in a small New England town. In it, Colonel Pyncheon, of Puritan formation, decides to build this mansion in the place where the Mathew Maule cabin was previously built, who is said to be a cloudy, dark man, since he was driven to torment on charges of witchcraft. The mansion is demonized, since different witchcraft rites had been performed before.The colonel, who presides over the conviction, cannot hide crooked claims in order to seize Maule's land. While he is being executed, he utters this phrase: "God will give you blood to drink." This curse will affect the following generations thus exposing great fatalism in them.On the day of the inauguration of the imposing house, the colonel dies suddenly. It is in this mansion that the entire novel takes place.The characters in this novel are actors in a social drama that shows the ridiculousness of the proud positions that despise humble people

Book A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys

Download or read book A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Doctor Grimshawe s Secret

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-01-25
  • ISBN : 3385324858
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Doctor Grimshawe s Secret written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book The House of the Seven Gables  1851   By  Nathaniel Hawthorne

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables 1851 By Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The book was well received upon publication and later had a strong influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. The House of the Seven Gables has been adapted several times to film and television. Plot[edit] The novel is set in the mid-19th century, but flashbacks to the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century, are set in other periods. The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted since its construction by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who has completed a thirty-year sentence for murder. She refuses all assistance from her wealthy but unpleasant cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. A distant relative, the lively and pretty young Phoebe, arrives and quickly becomes invaluable, charming customers and rousing Clifford from depression. A delicate romance grows between Phoebe and the mysterious attic lodger Holgrave, who is writing a history of the Pyncheon family. The house was built on ground wrongfully seized from its rightful owner, Matthew Maule, by Colonel Pyncheon, the founder of the Massachusetts branch of the family. Maule was accused of practicing witchcraft and was executed. According to legend, at his death Maule laid a curse upon the Pyncheon family. During the housewarming festivities, Colonel Pyncheon was found dead in his armchair; whether he actually died from the curse or from a congenital disease is unclear. His portrait remains in the house as a symbol of its dark past and the weight of the curse upon the spirit of its inhabitants. Phoebe arranges to visit her country home, but plans to return soon. Clifford, depressed by his isolation from humanity and his lost youth spent in prison, stands at a large arched window above the stairs and has a sudden urge to jump. The departure of Phoebe, the focus of his attention, leaves him bed-ridden. Judge Pyncheon arrives to find information about land in Maine, rumored to belong to the family. He threatens Clifford with an insanity hearing unless he reveals details about the land or the location of the missing deed. Clifford is unable to comply. Before Clifford can be brought before the Judge (which would destroy Clifford's fragile psyche), the Judge mysteriously dies while sitting in Colonel Pyncheon's chair. Hepzibah and Clifford flee by train. The next day, Phoebe returns and finds that Holgrave has discovered the Judge's body. The townsfolk begin to gossip about Hepzibah and Clifford's sudden disappearance. Phoebe is relieved when Hepzibah and Clifford return, having recovered their wits. New evidence in the crime that sent Clifford to prison proves his innocence. He was framed for the death of his uncle by Jaffrey, who was even then looking for the missing deed. Holgrave is revealed as Maule's descendant, but he bears no ill will toward the remaining Pyncheons. The missing deed is discovered behind the old Colonel's portrait, but the paper is worthless: the land is already settled by others. The characters abandon the old house and start a new life in the countryside, free from the burdens of the past.... Nathaniel Hawthorne ( born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.....

Book Selected Tales and Sketches

Download or read book Selected Tales and Sketches written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-03-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

Book The House Next Door

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-07-03
  • ISBN : 1416553444
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The House Next Door written by Anne Rivers Siddons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.

Book The House of the Seven Gables Illustrated

Download or read book The House of the Seven Gables Illustrated written by The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.