The Dead of the House Author:Hannah Green This is a story of a young girls coming of age in middle America..the simple pleasures of a lake summer...the ecstasy and heartbreak of a first love..the soaring quest for a dying past ad hte poignant affirmation of life. There is a touch of the Gothic here, In the old house that dust collects, a yard goes wild. A young girl remembers her mad g... more »randmother lying in her coffin in the drawing room...this is not the south again. It is the Ohio Valley, Cincannatti and summers in Michigan.. These are the descendants of the French nobility. Pioneers, woodsmen, scholars, they are people inn love with civilization and the wilderness and in their way..each other« less