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The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 and published in April 1851. The story follows a New England family haunted by an ancient curse tied to their ancestral home, built on land wrongfully seized during the Salem Witch Trials. Exploring themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, the novel weaves together past and present as impoverished Hepzibah Pyncheon, her brother Clifford, and their young cousin Phoebe confront family secrets and the mysterious death of Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  1. 1The House of the Seven Gables1,553 chars
  2. 2INTRODUCTORY NOTE THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES.9,787 chars
  3. 3PREFACE.5,166 chars
  4. 4THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES49,914 chars
  5. 5II. The Little Shop-Window23,489 chars
  6. 6III. The First Customer26,577 chars
  7. 7IV. A Day Behind the Counter27,013 chars
  8. 8V. May and November29,398 chars
  9. 9VI. Maule’s Well20,908 chars
  10. 10VII. The Guest31,944 chars
  11. 11VIII. The Pyncheon of To-day33,101 chars
  12. 12IX. Clifford and Phœbe23,470 chars
  13. 13X. The Pyncheon Garden26,193 chars
  14. 14XI. The Arched Window26,762 chars
  15. 15XII. The Daguerreotypist26,855 chars
  16. 16XIII. Alice Pyncheon45,122 chars
  17. 17XIV. Phœbe’s Good-Bye21,496 chars
  18. 18XV. The Scowl and Smile31,712 chars
  19. 19XVI. Clifford’s Chamber24,201 chars
  20. 20XVII. The Flight of Two Owls27,638 chars
  21. 21XVIII. Governor Pyncheon31,577 chars
  22. 22XIX. Alice’s Posies30,637 chars
  23. 23XX. The Flower of Eden16,627 chars
  24. 24XXI. The Departure20,325 chars