num_pages: 314
description: 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."This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text.
language: English
title: The House of the Seven Gables
titlecomplete: The House of the Seven Gables
characters: Scipio (Pyncheon slave), Hepzibah Pyncheon, Holgrave the daguerrotypist, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, Alice Pyncheon, Matthew Maule, the younger, Matthew Maule, Ned Higgins, Phoebe Pyncheon, Gervayse Pyncheon, Clifford Pyncheon, Colonel Pyncheon, Venner Pyncheon, Thomas Maule
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Novels, Gothic, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 38859
places: New England, Massachusetts, Salem, Massachusetts
publisher: Modern Library