Hawthorne: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House Of The Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun
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Few names loom larger in the American literary canon than Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose fiction penetrates the darkest corners of the Puritan conscience with an unflinching moral gaze. This Library of America volume brings together his five major prose works — Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun — presenting a comprehensive portrait of a writer obsessed with sin, guilt, and the heavy inheritance of the past. From the Salem witch trials to the utopian experiments of Brook Farm, Hawthorne's settings are never merely backdrops; they are indictments, saturated with symbolic weight and historical consequence. Hawthorne's prose is dense with allegory and psychological tension, anticipating the American novel's enduring preoccupation with identity, isolation, and moral ambiguity. His protagonists — Hester Prynne, Hepzibah Pyncheon, Zenobia, Miriam — are among the most richly imagined figures in nineteenth-century literature, each trapped within systems of power that punish transgression and reward conformity. Collected in a single authoritative edition, these works reveal the full arc of a singular literary vision — one that continues to unsettle and illuminate in equal measure.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few names loom larger in the American literary canon than Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose fiction penetrates the darkest corners of the Puritan conscience with an unflinching moral gaze. This Library of America volume brings together his five major prose works — Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun — presenting a comprehensive portrait of a writer obsessed with sin, guilt, and the heavy inheritance of the past. From the Salem witch trials to the utopian experiments of Brook Farm, Hawthorne's settings are never merely backdrops; they are indictments, saturated with symbolic weight and historical consequence. Hawthorne's prose is dense with allegory and psychological tension, anticipating the American novel's enduring preoccupation with identity, isolation, and moral ambiguity. His protagonists — Hester Prynne, Hepzibah Pyncheon, Zenobia, Miriam — are among the most richly imagined figures in nineteenth-century literature, each trapped within systems of power that punish transgression and reward conformity. Collected in a single authoritative edition, these works reveal the full arc of a singular literary vision — one that continues to unsettle and illuminate in equal measure.