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A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. Robert S. Levine's insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded explanatory footnotes, and note on the text and annotations. A generous selection of... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten... Read Full Overview

This annotated edition of " The House of the Seven Gables " includes: Plot Summary Characters analysis Historical Context Biography Step into the haunting world of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables," a timeless American classic that weaves a gripping tale of... Read Full Overview

This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's... Read Full Overview

FThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s.

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic novel set in a small New England town. It follows the lives of the Pyncheon family, whose wealth and power are tied to the ancient house of the seven gables. Through the story, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt... Read Full Overview

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to... Read Full Overview

Haunted since its construction by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death, the House of the Seven Gables is now home to shop-keeper Hepzibah Pyncheon and her brother Clifford, who has just completed a thirty-year sentence for murder. Their wealthy... Read Full Overview

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the... Read Full Overview

An abridged version of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred-old curse.

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It is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations and an insightful introduction to the novel and antebellum culture by Robert S. Levine.

"Contexts" brings together a generous selection of primary materials intended to provide readers with background on the novel's... Read Full Overview