The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Libros - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781545059814 - 4 de abril de 2017
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The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

"I sha'n't have the new story ready by November," he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, "for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me-multiplying and brightening its hues." But by vigorous application he was able to complete the new work about the middle of the January following. Since research has disclosed the manner in which the romance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, "The House of the Seven Gables" has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there. It is of record that he used peculiar severity towards a certain woman who was among the accused; and the husband of this woman prophesied that God would take revenge upon his wife's persecutors. This circumstance doubtless furnished a hint for that piece of tradition in the book which represents a Pyncheon of a former generation as having persecuted one Maule, who declared that God would give his enemy "blood to drink.

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Publicado 4 de abril de 2017
ISBN13 9781545059814
Editores Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Páginas 264
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   358 g
Lengua English  

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