The House of the Seven GablesTor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. 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. |
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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