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| Titre : |
The House of the Seven Gables |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)  |
| Editeur : |
Danbury, CT / USA : Grolier Enterprises |
| Collection : |
The world's great classics |
| Importance : |
422 p. |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
3 Culture:3.40 Littérature:Forme et genre littéraire:Prose:Roman
3 Culture:3.40 Littérature:Littérature nationale:Littérature nord-américaine
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| Résumé : |
The House of the Seven Gables is a colonial house built in the English style of half-timber and half-plaster. It stands on Pyncheon Street in quiet Salem. The house was built by Colonel Pyncheon, who wrested the desirable site from Matthew Maule, a poor man executed as a wizard. Colonel Pyncheon was responsible for the execution, and he takes the doomed man’s land, so Maule, at the moment of his execution, declares that God will give the Pyncheons blood to drink. Despite this grim prophecy, the colonel has his house, and its builder is Thomas Maule, son of the old wizard... |
The House of the Seven Gables [texte imprimé] / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) . - Danbury, CT / USA : Grolier Enterprises, [s.d.] . - 422 p.. - ( The world's great classics) . Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
3 Culture:3.40 Littérature:Forme et genre littéraire:Prose:Roman
3 Culture:3.40 Littérature:Littérature nationale:Littérature nord-américaine
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| Résumé : |
The House of the Seven Gables is a colonial house built in the English style of half-timber and half-plaster. It stands on Pyncheon Street in quiet Salem. The house was built by Colonel Pyncheon, who wrested the desirable site from Matthew Maule, a poor man executed as a wizard. Colonel Pyncheon was responsible for the execution, and he takes the doomed man’s land, so Maule, at the moment of his execution, declares that God will give the Pyncheons blood to drink. Despite this grim prophecy, the colonel has his house, and its builder is Thomas Maule, son of the old wizard... |
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