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The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
A short summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The House of the Seven Gables.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch.
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Aug 1, 1993 · Aug 1, 1993. Most Recently Updated. Jul 27, 2021. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 1129 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
Designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2007, The House of the Seven Gables is best known today as the setting of world-renowned American author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel. But it is so much more!
Jul 27, 2021 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
The weather-beaten House of the Seven Gables, the 200-year-old mansion belonging to the Pyncheon family, stands in a New England town. Two centuries ago, the land on which the House stands belonged to an obscure cottager named Matthew Maule. Colonel Pyncheon, a powerful citizen, wanted that land.
