Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet – in part because of blemishes on his own family history – he also saw the darker side of the young nation. Like his twentieth-century heirs William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne peered behind propriety's façade and exposed the true human condition.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9788835374022 ● File size 1.4 MB ● Publisher Streetlib Book Publishing ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7383778 ● Copy protection without
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