The House of the Seven Gables
Description
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. This tale draws on Hawthorne's own family history for inspiration. The author's great-grandfather served as a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials, and his actions there allegedly brought a curse upon the Hawthorne family. The House of Seven Gables centers around a curse as well; here, Wizard Maule curses the Pyncheon family's ancestral home after the first Colonel Pyncheon viciously cheated Maule of his wealth. Cruel Judge Jeffrey Pyncheon (the Colonel's...
ISBN(s)
0543908488, 9780543908483
