The house of seven gables

a romance

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publication

1851 - Ticknor and Fields, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

105,596 words, Calculated

Page Count

342 pages

Physical Format

Microform

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL17795386M
OCLC Control Number10402216

Description

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 the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation -- or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel."