The House of the Seven Gables (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Psychological Romance
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Superstition, Nineteenth century, Brothers and sisters, New England, Good and evil, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Judges
- Locales: Salem, MA
Clifford Pyncheon returns to his ancestral home, the house of the seven gables, after years of imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. He finds that his reclusive sister, Hepzibah, has opened a shop in the front of the house in order to supplement the fading family fortunes. Living with her is a cousin from the country, Phoebe, who is acting as a companion and housekeeper, and Mr. Holgrave, the local daguerreotypist and a distant relative of Matthew Maule, from whom the Pyncheons originally stole the property on which the house stands. The death of Judge Pyncheon, another cousin and...
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