Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
Buch
- Herausgeber: Michael Davitt Bell
- Oxford University Press, 03/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780199539123
- Bestellnummer: 2091902
- Umfang: 368 Seiten
- Auflage: Reiss.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 250 g
- Maße: 199 x 126 mm
- Stärke: 19 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.3.2009
- Serie: Oxford World's Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries `God will give him blood to drink!' The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants inthe crumbling mansion for the next century and a half.
Hawthorne called his novel a `Romance', drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human nature and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write `a more natural and healthy product of my mind', a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination. The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.
Beschreibung
In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries `God will give him blood to drink!' The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants inthe crumbling mansion for the next century and a half.
Hawthorne called his novel a `Romance', drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human nature and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write `a more natural and healthy product of my mind', a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination. The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.
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Klappentext
Classic American gothic novel.Biografie (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) stammte aus einer puritanischen Neuengland-Familie. Er war Journalist, arbeitete als Zollinspektor und wurde Konsul in Liverpool. Nach einer mehrjährigen Europa-Reise in die Heimat zurückgekehrt, starb er, erschüttert über den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg. Hawthorne gilt als Begründer des psychologischen Romans in den USA.Mehr von Nathaniel Hawth...
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