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Gothic Romance. The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel, which is a type of novel that was popularized in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Gothic romances trace back to Horace Walpole's 1765 novel, The Castle of Otranto and were often mysteries that involved the supernatural.
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.
About The House of the Seven Gables. First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne’s chronicle ...
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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 ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne. "The House of the Seven Gables" is a Gothic novel written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1851. The book was inspired by a gabled house in the town of Salem, Massachusetts that belonged to Hawthorne's cousin, Susanna Ingersoll and by Hawthorne's own knowledge of the part that his ancestors played ...
The weather-beaten House of the Seven Gables, the 200-year-old mansion belonging to the Pyncheon family, stands in a New England town. Two centuries ago, the land on which the House stands belonged to an obscure cottager named Matthew Maule. Colonel Pyncheon, a powerful citizen, wanted that land. Following a drawn-out dispute over the property ...
