The house of the seven gables
a romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Hawthorne Collection
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Fiction
"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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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.
Controlled discovery queries from 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
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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a romance Open Library record | 1861 | Ticknor and Fields | English | — | No ebook | |
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 1993-08-01 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
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