The House of the Seven Gables

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Macmillan, Aug 15, 1989 - Fiction - 352 pages
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This edition of The House of the Seven Gables includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Andre Norton.

Built on land taken from a dead wizard, The Pyncheon's seven-gabled mansion was the focus for two centuries' secrets and legends: legends of hauntings and undying curses, secrets of madness and missing fortunes. Age and poverty now claimed the house and its residents--old, reclusive Miss Hepzibah; her strange, troubled brother Clifford; and the mysterious young artist Holgrave.

Then, suddenly the house as transformed by the arrival of the Pyncheons' beautiful young cousin, Phoebe. She brought life, laughter, and love into the tiny world of dusty, dark despair.

But one rich, powerful, corrupt man--Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon--coveting the mansion's hidden secrets. And his plot to find them meant destroying all hope and happiness in The House of the Seven Gables.
 

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Contents

THE OLD PYNCHEON FAMILY
1
THE LITTLE SHOPWINDOW
27
THE FIRST CUSTOMER
40
A DAY BEHIND THE COUNTER
55
MAY AND NOVEMBER
70
MAULES WELL
86
THE GUEST
98
THE PYNCHEON OF TODAY
116
THE DAGUERREOTYPIST
177
ALICE PYNCHEON
192
PHOEBES GOODBY
217
THE SCOWL AND SMILE
229
CLIFFORDS CHAMBER
246
THE FLIGHT OF TWO OWLS
259
GOVERNOR PYNCHEON
274
ALICES POSIES
291

CLIFFORD AND PHOEBE
134
THE PYNCHEON GARDEN
147
THE ARCHED WINDOW
162
THE FLOWER OF EDEN
308
THE DEPARTURE
318
Afterword
329

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About the author (1989)

Nathanial Hawthorne was the author of many classics, such as "The Scarlet Letter "and "The House of Seven Gables. "

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