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Original Title:	The House of the Seven Gables
ISBN:	0393924769 (ISBN13: 9780393924763)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alice Pyncheon, Colonel Pyncheon, Matthew Maule, Hepzibah Pyncheon, Holgrave the daguerrotypist, Phoebe Pyncheon, Clifford Pyncheon, Venner Pyncheon, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, Ned Higgins, Thomas Maule, Matthew Maule, the younger, Gervayse Pyncheon, Scipio (Pyncheon slave)
Setting:	Salem, Massachusetts(United States) Massachusetts(United States) New England(United States)

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Paperback | Pages: 225 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 33700 Users | 2125 Reviews

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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 theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism.

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Title	:	The House of the Seven Gables
Author	:	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Norton Critical Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 225 pages
Published	:	August 8th 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published March 1851)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Gothic. Literature

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A clueless group here in goodreads.com made this this its book of the month read under the "Horror" genre when there is no horror in it. The author called it, instead, a "Romance" but there is no romance in it, either, except a brief declaration of love for each other of two protagonists towards the end with all its unmistakable phoniness ("How can you love a simple girl like me?" Duh, all men profess to love simple girls!).This is actually a sex book written under the atmosphere of sexual

This book was not on my radar until my wife and I were visiting Salem, Massachusetts, and she asked to see the eponymous House of the Seven Gables. As it turns out, Nathaniel Hawthorne did visit the house in question, but it did not have 7 gables at the time, and was probably one of a few structures that served as inspiration for the book. Regardless, the delightful tour inspired me to pick this up.Hawthorne has constructed a story with small autobiographical flourishes. His own

I have read and re-read this many times....the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit, in a far distant time. Thus speaks Hawthorne in the course of his book and to a large extent this summarises the theme and plot of the story.The book is a natural progression from his previous work, The Scarlet Letter, almost an updated (by 150-200 years) sequel to it. Hawthorne began it a mere 6 months after the publication of The Scarlet Letter. Here he shows

Hawthorne is the equivalent of nudging someone and winking without actually thinking of anything interesting, risque, beautiful, or even useful. It is sad that a man with such a voluminous writing ability was seemingly devoid of any notion of what to do with it.

Ill admit that I am not a big fan of some of Hawthornes writing. At the beginning of the book it was slow going and hard for me to get into. But I stuck it out.The things I did like about the story were the gothic undertones. If Hawthorne had focused more on those, I might have liked the story better.I am not giving up on Hawthorne yet. Eventually I will get to the Marbel Faun.

Please note that I gave this book half a star and rounded it to 1 star on Goodreads.Bah. Bah a thousand times. I have no idea why I started reading this. I think for the Halloween Book Bingo and I ended up switching it out. This thing was painful to read. I don't even know what to tell you besides if you must read this, just pace yourself since trying to force read this thing was not fun at all. At least the last 10-15 pages were just about Project Gutenberg though. I am going to complain though

An old US colloquial house with seven gables that seem to be mocking heaven. Seven main characters. The old ugly Hepzibah Pyncheon running a candy shop to earn a living for herself and her war-torn brother Clifford Pyncheon. Her face is ugly because she has to squint to see. She needs to wear eye-glasses but she is so poor that she cannot afford to have one. So customers are few except the young adorable boy Ned Higgins who loves gingerbread cookies that he comes back again and again to the