| Categoría | Contemporánea |
| ISBN | 9780451531629 |
| Peso | 0.50 |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Editorial | Signet |
| Autor | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Tapa | Rústica |
| Año | 2010 |
| Ciudad | Nueva York |
| Páginas | 304 |
This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s.
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.