The House of the Seven Gables / / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• VerfasserIn: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
• MitwirkendeR: Donoghue, Denis,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate.” Many critics have faulted the novel for its explaining away of hereditary guilt or its contradictory denial of it. Denis Donoghue instructs the reader in a fresh appreciation of the novel. The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The House of the Seven Gables in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life -- THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES -- Preface -- I. The Old Pyncheon Family -- II. The Little Shop-Window -- III. The First Customer -- IV. A Day Behind the Counter -- V. May and November -- VI. Maule’s Well -- VII. The Guest -- VIII. The Pyncheon of To-Day -- IX. Clifford and Phoebe -- X. The Pyncheon-Garden -- XI. The Arched Window -- XII. The Daguerreotypist -- XIII. Alice Pyncheon -- XIV. Phoebe’s Good Bye -- XV. The Scowl and Smile -- XVI. Clifford’s Chamber -- XVII. The Flight of Two Owls -- XVIII. Governor Pyncheon -- XIX. Alice’s Posies -- XX. The Flower of Eden -- XXI. The Departure -- Selected Bibliography