The House of the Seven GablesFollowing on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-gotten gold, or real estate.” Many critics have faulted the novel for its explaining away of hereditary guilt or its contradictory denial of it. Denis Donoghue instructs the reader in a fresh appreciation of the novel. |
Contents
The Old Pyncheon Family | 5 |
The Little ShopWindow | 30 |
The First Customer | 42 |
A Day Behind the Counter | 56 |
May and November | 71 |
Maules Well | 87 |
The Guest | 98 |
The Pyncheon of ToDay | 115 |
Alice Pyncheon | 187 |
Phoebes Good Bye | 211 |
The Scowl and Smile | 223 |
Cliffords Chamber | 240 |
The Flight of Two Owls | 253 |
Governor Pyncheon | 268 |
Alices Posies | 284 |
The Flower of Eden | 301 |
Clifford and Phoebe | 133 |
The PyncheonGarden | 145 |
The Arched Window | 159 |
The Daguerreotypist | 173 |
The Departure | 311 |
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Alice Pyncheon appeared arched window artist beautiful behold better breath carpenter chair character cheon child Colonel Pyncheon countenance Cousin Hepzibah cried daguerreotype Daguerreotypist dark dead dear death door dream eyes face fancied feel figure Flower of Eden flowers garden gaze girl give guest hand happy harpsichord Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Hepzi Holgrave human Jaffrey Jim Crow JOHN HARVARD Judge Pyn Judge Pyncheon Judge's kind lady live look man's Marble Faun Matthew Maule Maule's mind Miss Hepzibah morning Nathaniel Hawthorne nature ness never old gentleman old house once parlor passed perhaps person Phoebe's picture pleasant poor Hepzibah Puritan Pyncheon-elm Pyncheon-house Pyncheon-street R. P. Blackmur Romance scowl secret seemed sense Seven Gables shadow smile spirit stept stern stood story strange street sunshine T. S. Eliot things thought tion truth turned Twice-told Tales Uncle Venner voice whole woman young youth