The House of the Seven Gables
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Описание и характеристики
Nathaniel Hawthorne's works are imbued with a mixture of the actual and the imaginary, and The House of the Seven Gables is an enduring example. The puritanical Jaffrey Pyncheon is the embodiment of Hawthorne's own ancestor, a judge at the Salem witch trials; the gloomy gabled house typifies Hawthorne's view of his New England ancestry. It is this masterful blending of the spiritual and the symbolic that allows Hawthorne's haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen.
With a New Introduction by Katherine Howe and an Afterword by Brenda Wineapple.
ID товара
2872432
Издательство
Не установлено
Год издания
2010
ISBN
978-0-45-153162-9, 978-0-451-53162-9
Количество страниц
304
Размер
2x10.5x17
Тип обложки
Мягкий переплёт
Вес, г
189
Отзывы
15 бонусов
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4.3
Рита
24.10.2022
Сложно, но можно
Плюсы
Красивый авторский язык, очень расширяет словарный запас читателя.
Минусы
Порой встречаются сложные слова, которые стопорят чтение.
This is a tale of a house cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft—a house haunted by the ghosts of its dead and the terror of its living inhabitants. The blighted house controls the fates of four Pyncheons: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse; Clifford, her delicate 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's works are imbued with a mixture of the actual and the imaginary, and The House of the Seven Gables is an enduring example. The puritanical Jaffrey Pyncheon is the embodiment of Hawthorne's own ancestor, a judge at the Salem witch trials; the gloomy gabled house typifies Hawthorne's view of his New England ancestry. It is this masterful blending of the spiritual and the symbolic that allows Hawthorne's haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen.
With a New Introduction by Katherine Howe and an Afterword by Brenda Wineapple.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's works are imbued with a mixture of the actual and the imaginary, and The House of the Seven Gables is an enduring example. The puritanical Jaffrey Pyncheon is the embodiment of Hawthorne's own ancestor, a judge at the Salem witch trials; the gloomy gabled house typifies Hawthorne's view of his New England ancestry. It is this masterful blending of the spiritual and the symbolic that allows Hawthorne's haunted house to stand firm where many a weaker one has fallen.
With a New Introduction by Katherine Howe and an Afterword by Brenda Wineapple.
Книга подходит для тех, кто любит читать в оригинале, но точно не для начинающих читателей уровня ниже В1.