Contributions

  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. - Contributor
  • Bell, Millicent. - Contributor

Publication

1983 - Library of America, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

318,000 words, Guess

Page Count

1,272 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 6 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.3
  • LCCPS1852 1983

Description

Blithedale Romance Fanshawe House of Seven Gables Marble Faun Scarlet Letter

Description

Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "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 Blithedale Romance" explores the perils, which Hawthorne knew at first hand, of living in a utopian community, and the inextricability of political, personal, and sexual desires. "Fanshawe" is an engrossing apprentice work which Hawthorne published anonymously and later sought to suppress. "The Marble Faun," his last finished novel, involves mystery, murder, and romance among American artists in Rome.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Library of America

Other Editions

  • Fanshawe / The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / The Marble FaunHardcoverLibrary of America1983-01-01

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