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The House of the Seven Gables Mass market paperbound - 1989

by Nathaniel Hawthorne


About this book

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 of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history."

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation--or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance," and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.".

From the publisher

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of "The House of the Seven Gables " includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Andre Norton. Built on land taken from a dead wizard, The Pyncheon's seven-gabled mansion was the focus for two centuries' secrets and legends: legends of hauntings and undying curses, secrets of madness and missing fortunes. Age and poverty now claimed the house and its residents--old, reclusive Miss Hepzibah; her strange, troubled brother Clifford; and the mysterious young artist Holgrave.
Then, suddenly the house as transformed by the arrival of the Pyncheons' beautiful young cousin, Phoebe. She brought life, laughter, and love into the tiny world of dusty, dark despair. But one rich, powerful, corrupt man--Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon--coveting the mansion's hidden secrets. And his plot to find them meant destroying all hope and happiness in "The House of the Seven Gables."

First Edition Identification

Ticknor, Reeds and Fields published a First Printing, First Edition in London, 1851. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth with gold lettering present on the spine


Heritage press published a First Edition in Norwalk, Connecticut, 1963.

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  • Title The House of the Seven Gables
  • Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Complete and ed
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aerie, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-08
  • ISBN 9780812504590 / 0812504593
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.87 x 4.21 x 0.88 in (17.45 x 10.69 x 2.24 cm)
  • Ages 13 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 8 - 12
  • Reading level 1320
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code NA

About the author

Nathanial Hawthorne was the author of many classics, such as "The Scarlet Letter "and "The House of Seven Gables. "
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