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The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The story follows a New England family haunted by an ancient curse tied to their ancestral home, built on land wrongfully seized during the Salem Witch Trials.

"The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a Gothic novel. The story follows a New England family haunted by an ancient curse tied to their ancestral home, built on land wrongfully seized during the Salem Witch Trials.

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Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm. On my occasional visits to the town aforesaid, I seldom failed to turn down Pyncheon Street, for the sake of passing through the shadow of these two antiquities,—the great elm-tree and the weather-beaten edifice.

Contents

  1. 01Introductory Note the House of the Seven Gables.
  2. 02Preface.
  3. 03The House of the Seven Gables
  4. 04I. The Old Pyncheon Family
  5. 05II. The Little Shop-Window
  6. 06III. The First Customer
  7. 07IV. A Day Behind the Counter
  8. 08V. May and November
  9. 09VI. Maule’s Well
  10. 10VII. The Guest
  11. 11VIII. The Pyncheon of To-day
  12. 12IX. Clifford and Phœbe
  13. 13X. The Pyncheon Garden
  14. 14XI. The Arched Window
  15. 15XII. The Daguerreotypist
  16. 16XIII. Alice Pyncheon
  17. 17XIV. Phœbe’s Good-Bye
  18. 18XV. The Scowl and Smile
  19. 19XVI. Clifford’s Chamber
  20. 20XVII. The Flight of Two Owls
  21. 21XVIII. Governor Pyncheon
  22. 22XIX. Alice’s Posies
  23. 23XX. The Flower of Eden
  24. 24XXI. The Departure

About this edition

Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
282 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers