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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The House Of The Seven Gables: Preface, Chapters 1 - 4

Hawthorne's "Preface":

Hawthorne, the romanticist, includes some of his most definite and most
remarkable statements concerning his point of view toward the romance (as a
literary type) in his "Preface" to The House of the Seven Gables. Point by
point, he defines the "romance" - as it is represented by him in all of his
long works of fiction. He is not writing a "Novel" - which he describes as
having a certain "fidelity" to the "probable and ordinary course of man's
experience." He claims for ...

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