The House of the Seven Gables
By: Edited by Seymour L. Gross.
Contributors: Gross, Seymour Lee, 1926- ed.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Norton critical editions
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Haunted houses -- Fiction; Salem (Mass.) -- Fiction
Description: Literary criticism and interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work: The House of the Seven Gables. "The four Pyncheons live inside the blighted house: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse, Clifford, her feeble-minded brother, Phoebe, their young country cousin ... and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate whose greedy quest for secret wealth is marked by murder and terrible vengeance from a restless grave."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 483-484.
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