The Dead of the House Summary
Hannah Green

Everything you need to understand or teach The Dead of the House by Hannah Green.

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The Dead of the House Summary

Hannah Green's only novel, The Dead of the House (1972), has been praised for its evocative language and lyrical prose. The novel originally appeared in the New Yorker as a series of shorter fictional pieces. It was published as a novel in 1971 to critical and commercial praise; when it was reprinted in 1996, the novel was discovered by a new generation of readers.

The novel is the story of a girl's passage from childhood through...

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