The House of the Seven Gables

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• ISBN13: 9780674035751
• ISBN10: 0674035755
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

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

Introduction to The House of the Seven Gables

Textual Introduction: The House of the Seven Gables

Note on the Typesetting

Preface

The Old Pyncheon Family

The Little Shop-Window

The First Customer

A Day behind the Counter

May and November

Maule's Well

The Guest

The Pyncheon of To-day

Clifford and Phoebe

The Pyncheon-Garden

The Arched Window

The Daguerreotypist

Alice Pyncheon

Phoebe's Good Bye

The Scowl and Smile

Clifford's Chamber

The Flight of Two Owls

Governor Pyncheon

Alice's Posies

The Flower of Eden

The Departure

Textual Notes

Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text

Rejected First-Edition Substantive Readings

Word-Division

Historical Collation

Alterations in the Manuscript

Compositorial Stints in the First Edition

The Centenary Texts: Editorial Principles

Appendix to the Second Printing

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