The house of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Public ISBD Titre : The house of the seven gables Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Milton R. Stern Editeur : London [England] : Penguin Books Année de publication : 19811965 Collection : The Penguin American library Importance : xl, 326 p. Présentation : couv. ill. en coul. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-039005-6 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : Haunted houses  Fiction. Index. décimale : 813/.3 Résumé : 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 facade and exposed the true human condition. Book jacket. The house of the seven gables [texte imprimé] / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Milton R. Stern . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 19811965 . - xl, 326 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. - (The Penguin American library) . ISBN : 978-0-14-039005-6 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : Haunted houses  Fiction. Index. décimale : 813/.3 Résumé : 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 facade and exposed the true human condition. Book jacket.

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Walden and civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau

Public ISBD Titre : Walden and civil disobedience Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henry David Thoreau Editeur : London [England] : Penguin Books Année de publication : 1983 Collection : The Penguin American library Importance : 431 p. Présentation : couv. ill. en coul. Format : 19 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-039044-5 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Résumé : Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. Walden and civil disobedience [texte imprimé] / Henry David Thoreau . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 1983 . - 431 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 19 cm. - (The Penguin American library) . ISBN : 978-0-14-039044-5 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Résumé : Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry.

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