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The house of the seven gables

a romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Hawthorne Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction
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"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 and published in April 1851. The story follows a New England family haunted by an ancient curse tied to their ancestral home, built on land wrongfully seized during the Salem Witch Trials. Exploring themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, the novel weaves together past and present as impoverished Hepzibah Pyncheon, her brother Clifford, and their young cousin Phoebe confront family secrets and the mysterious death of Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “haunted” and “Haunted houses”. Retained metadata contains “haunted” in the description, “haunted” in the subject metadata, and “Haunted houses” in the subject metadata.

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Editions

5 editions cataloged here.

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925

1925———Source listed online copy

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

with introduction by Lathrop

————Source listed online copy

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

edited for school use; Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1902

1902———Source listed online copy

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributors: Lathrop, George Parsons
  • Editors: Herrick, Robert
  • Illustrators: Grose, Helen Mason
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PS1861 .A1
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PS1861 .A1 1902
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PS1861 .A1 1925
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: edited for school use; Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1902
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: with introduction by Lathrop
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openlibrary-work:OL44746770W
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