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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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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/1982
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- ISBN:9780140390056
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/01/1982
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140390056