The house of the seven gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited with an introduction by Michael Davitt Bell.
Contributors: Bell, Michael Davitt.
Series: The World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Haunted houses -- Fiction.; Salem (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Description: After a condemned man cursed Colonel Pyncheon from the scaffold during an execution for witchcraft, the Colonel's fate seemed to affect all of his descendants in the crumbling mansion until "young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathed fresh air and sunshine into the mouldering lives and rooms."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvi).