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The House of the Seven Gables

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The House of the Seven Gables
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Publisher: E.P. Dutton
ISBN/ASIN: 1433211963
ISBN-13: 9781433211966
Number of pages: 344

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Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. Set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., the work is a somber 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 witchcraft trials. The greed and arrogant pride of the novel's Pyncheon family through the generations is mirrored in the gloomy decay of their seven-gabled mansion, in which the family's enfeebled and impoverished relations live.

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