In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in...
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In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries `God will give him blood to drink!' The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants in the crumbling mansion for the next century and a half.Hawthorne called his novel a `Romance', drawing on the Goth
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne; THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES; Preface; I: The Old Pyncheon Family; II: The Little Shop-Window; III: The First Customer; IV: A Day behind the Counter; V: May and November; VI: Maule's Well; VII: The Guest; VIII: The Pyncheon of To-day; IX: Clifford and Phoebe; X: The Pyncheon-Garden; XI: The Arched Window; XII: The Daguerreotypist; XIII: Alice Pyncheon; XIV: Phoebe's Good Bye; XV: The Scowl and Smile; XVI: Clifford's Chamber; XVII: The Flight of Two Owls; XVIII: Governor Pyncheon
XIX: Alice's PosiesXX: The Flower of Eden; XXI: The Departure; Explanatory Notes
