CENTENARY ED WORKS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Subtitle: VOL. II, THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Vol 2)
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Fredson Bowers, textual editor
Series: The Centenary edition of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne ; v. 2
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: December 1, 1965
Place of publication: Columbus, OH
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780814200605
Copyright date: 1965
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction
First sentence: HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
Description: Follows the Pyncheon family living for years in a home under a man's curse until his death restores the peace of their house.
Notes: "A publication of The Ohio State Center for Textual Studies" - flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to The House of the Seven Gables / W.C. [William Charvat]; title: Textual introduction : The House of the Seven Gables / F.B. [Fredson Bowers]; title: Note on the typesetting; title: Preface; title: The old Pyncheon family; title: The little shop-window; title: The first customer; title: A day behind the counter; title: May and November; title: Maule's well; title: The guest; title: The Pyncheon of to-day; title: Clifford and Phoebe; title: The Pyncheon-garden; title: The arched window; title: The daguerreotypist; title: Alice Pyncheon; title: Phoebe's good bye; title: The scowl and smile; title: Clifford's chamber; title: The flight of two owls; title: Governor Pyncheon; title: Alice's posies; title: The flower of Eden; title: The departure; title: Textual notes; title: Editorial emendations in the copy-text; title: Rejected first-edition substantive readings; title: Word-division; title: Historical collation; title: Alterations in the manuscript; title: Compositorial stints in the first edition; title: The Centenary Texts : editorial principles