基本説明
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The House of the Seven Gables in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Full Description
Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate "the folly" of tumbling down on posterity "an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate." Many critics have faulted the novel for its explaining away of hereditary guilt or its contradictory denial of it. Denis Donoghue instructs the reader in a fresh appreciation of the novel.
The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The House of the Seven Gables in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Contents
* Introduction to The House of the Seven Gables * Textual Introduction: The House of the Seven Gables * Note on the Typesetting * Preface * The Old Pyncheon Family * The Little Shop-Window * The First Customer * A Day behind the Counter * May and November * Maule's Well * The Guest * The Pyncheon of To-day * Clifford and Phoebe * The Pyncheon-Garden * The Arched Window * The Daguerreotypist * Alice Pyncheon * Phoebe's Good Bye * The Scowl and Smile * Clifford's Chamber * The Flight of Two Owls * Governor Pyncheon * Alice's Posies * The Flower of Eden * The Departure * Textual Notes * Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text * Rejected First-Edition Substantive Readings * Word-Division * Historical Collation * Alterations in the Manuscript * Compositorial Stints in the First Edition * The Centenary Texts: Editorial Principles * Appendix to the Second Printing
