The House of the Seven Gables (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: 1850
- 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
Places Discussed
House of the Seven Gables. Colonial house built in the English style of half-timber and half-plaster on Pyncheon Street in an unnamed town in Massachusetts. The house had been built by Colonel Pyncheon, who had wrested the desirable site from Matthew Maule, a poor man executed as a wizard. Colonel Pyncheon was responsible for Maule’s execution and took the doomed man’s land. At the moment of his execution, Maule declared that God would give the Pyncheons blood to drink. Despite this grim prophecy, the colonel had his house, and its builder was Thomas Maule,...
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