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Matthew Maule – Original owner of the land where the House of Seven Gables is built. Colonel Pyncheon had him hanged as a wizard so that he could seize the man's property. Clifford Pyncheon – Hepzibah's elderly, unwell brother who lives in the house after serving a sentence for the murder of his uncle; he was framed by his cousin, Jaffrey.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch trials. The greed and arrogance of the novel ...
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1942. The House of the Seven Gables é um romance gótico escrito em 1851 pelo escritor americano Nathaniel Hawthorne e publicado no mesmo ano pela Companhia Editora Ticknor and Fields, de Boston. Hawthorne explora temas envolvendo culpa, retribuição e expiação em uma família da Nova Inglaterra, nos Estados Unidos, colorindo seus relatos ...
The house of seven gables is a good read, it shows certain tendencies of the human state that can be improved upon, and it exposes qualities especially regarding lineage and folklore that can be outlived. It shows that the power of the past is but a choice, whether we acknowledge its ruling power or not is a decision made by the present.
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 loom large over The House of the Seven Gables, as they did over Hawthorne’s own life. The Trials began after two little girls accused three women (a slave, a beggar, and a poor elderly woman) of supernaturally afflicting them with strange fits. Over the coming months, dozens of people, mostly women, were tried ...
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.
