The House of the Seven Gables (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
The House of the Seven Gables is based upon another of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” To illustrate his thesis, Hawthorne drew upon another verse from the book of Exodus, which reads in part: “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” Hawthorne's scope in this work was considerably more ambitious than that of The Scarlet Letter, a story which covered a time span of less than ten years.
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