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19 de jun. de 2007 · Simon and Schuster, Jun 19, 2007 - Fiction - 432 pages. The story of the Pyncheon family, residents of an evil house cursed by the victim of their ancestor's witch hunt and haunted by the ghosts of many generations. The House of the Seven Gables has been home to many generations of the Pyncheon family, each with their own dramas and tragedies.
Discover the many surprises at The House of the Seven Gables including a climb up the famed secret staircase. Your admission includes a guided tour through the 17th-century mansion, a visit to Nathaniel Hawthorne's birth house, Kid's Cove, spectacular waterfront views of Salem Harbor, three-season gardens and a unique Museum Store. Tours daily ...
The House of the Seven Gables is one of the oldest surviving timber-framed mansion houses in continental North America, with 17 rooms and over 8,000 square feet (700 m) including its large cellars . After John Turner III lost the family fortune, the house was acquired by the Ingersolls, who remodeled it again.
The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground. Pyncheon Street formerly bore the humbler appellation of Maule's Lane, from the name of the original occupant of the soil, before whose cottage-door it was a cow-path.
Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its residents for over two centuries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is, as the author notes in a short preface to the novel, a romance. The story thus, as Hawthorne states, includes fantastical occurrences, improbabilities, and attempts to connect the past with the present, sacrificing literal authenticity for more abstract truths.
The House of the Seven Gables – located as it is at 115 Derby Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970 – is today one of the pre-eminent historical attractions of an eminently historic city. Built in 1668, the house, also known as the Turner-Ingersoll mansion, is a treasure of colonial New England architecture.
