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Here, in one Library of America volume, are all five of Hawthorne's world-famous novels. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, they are permeated by his own history as well as America's. In The House of the Seven Gables , for example, Hawthorne alludes to his ancestor's involvement in the Salem witch trials, as he follows the fortunes of two rival families, the Maules and the Pyncheons. The novel moves across 150 years of American history, from an ancestral crime condoned by Puritan theocracy to reconciliation and a new beginning in the bustling Jacksonian era. Considered Hawthorne's greatest work, The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. The transgression of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the innate lawlessness of their bastard child Pearl, and the torturous jealousy of the husband Roger Chillingworth...

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne; Millicent Bell

Publisher

Library of America, The

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585165134

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction