Dec 25, 2009

The House of the Seven Gables | The House of the Seven Gables

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
First Published: 1851
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Gothic
Time of Work: 1850
Setting: Salem, Massachusetts
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

Characters Discussed

Colonel Pyncheon, a stern Massachusetts magistrate who, during the famous witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century, sent to his death a man whose property he coveted for himself. Cursed by his innocent victim, the colonel died on the day his big new house, the House of the Seven Gables, built on his victim’s land, was officially opened to guests.

Matthew Maule, Colonel Pyncheon’s victim, who swore that his unjust accuser should drink blood, as Colonel Pyncheon did when he died.

Thomas Maule, the son of Matthew Maule. As the head...

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The House of the Seven Gables | The House of the Seven Gables

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