Fanshawe / The Scarlet Letter / The House of the Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / The Marble Faun
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Contributors: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Bell, Millicent.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1272
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.
Notes: Edited by Millicent Bell
Table of contents: title: Fanshawe. The scarlet letter. The house of seven gables. The Blithedale romance. The marble faun.