The House of the Seven Gables
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cover: Salem Harbor (1853), oil on canvas by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1865)
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a gabled house in Salem, Massachusetts, belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll, as well as ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
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Table of contents
- 1: The Old Pyncheon Family
- 2: The Little Shop-Window
- 3: The First Customer
- 4: A Day Behind the Counter
- 5: May and November
- 6: Maule’s Well
- 7: The Guest
- 8: The Pyncheon of To-day
- 9: Clifford and Phœbe
- 10: The Pyncheon Garden
- 11: The Arched Window
- 12: The Daguerreotypist
- 13: Alice Pyncheon
- 14: Phœbe’s Good-Bye
- 15: The Scowl and Smile
- 16: Clifford’s Chamber
- 17: The Flight of Two Owls
- 18: Governor Pyncheon
- 19: Alice’s Posies
- 20: The Flower of Eden
- 21: The Departure