Fiction · 1851
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables, first published in 1851, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- 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 Phœbe
- X — The Pyncheon Garden
- XI — The Arched Window
- XII — The Daguerreotypist
- XIII — Alice Pyncheon
- XIV — Phœbe’s Good-Bye
- XV — The Scowl and Smile
- XVI — Clifford’s Chamber
- XVII — The Flight of Two Owls
- XVIII — Governor Pyncheon
- XIX — Alice’s Posies
- XX — The Flower of Eden
- XXI — The Departure
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About the author
1804–1864 · Victorian
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of a judge at the Salem witch trials. After Bowdoin College he wrote tales for a dozen years in near-seclusion (Twice-Told Tales, 1837), worked in the Boston and Salem custom houses, and lived briefly at Brook Farm. The Scarlet Letter (1850) made his name; The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860) followed. He served as American consul at Liverpool from 1853 to 1857.
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