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- Hawthorne wrote of the house as if it were a living thing. It is described as such in the novel: "The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance... It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of its own, and full of rich and sombre reminisces.
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House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts c. 1915. The novel begins: 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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 loom large over The House of the Seven Gables, as they did over Hawthorne’s own life. The Trials began after two little girls accused three women (a slave, a beggar, and a poor elderly woman) of supernaturally afflicting them with strange fits.
May 19, 2011 · The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre 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 witch.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 24, 2021 · The gables, the high triangular peaks that tie into the roofline of the house, only numbered three during Hawthorne’s lifetime and it also lacked the later added rear addition. He had heard historically the house had seven gables and so used this fact in his book.
Use our free chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of The House of the Seven Gables. It helps middle and high school students understand Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary masterpiece.
Nov 21, 2023 · In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables, Matthew Maule builds a house in Salem, Massachusetts that Colonel Pyncheon wants.
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The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables.
