The house of the seven gables
(Book)
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Contributors:
Published:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
xxviii, 328 pages ; 20 cm.
Lexile measure:
1320L
Rating:
1320L
Status:
Description
A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its residents for over two centuries. Now Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, an iron-hearted hypocrite and intellectual heir to the mansion's unscrupulous founder
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0192836455, 9780192836458
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 11, 22 Points
Level 11, 22 Points
Lexile measure:
1320
Notes
General Note
"First published as a World's classics paperback 1991. Reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1998"--T.p. verso.
Target Audience
1320L,Lexile
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APA Citation (style guide)
Hawthorne, N., & Bell, M. D. (1998). The house of the seven gables. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 and Michael Davitt. Bell. 1998. The House of the Seven Gables. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 and Michael Davitt. Bell, The House of the Seven Gables. Oxford University Press, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Michael Davitt Bell. The House of the Seven Gables. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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