The House of the Seven GablesFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text. |
Contents
The Little Shopwindow | |
The First Customer | |
A Day Behind the Counter | |
May and November | |
Maules Well | |
The Daguerreotypist | |
Alice Pyncheon | |
Phoebes Goodby | |
The Scowl and Smile | |
Cliffords Chamber | |
The Flight of Two Owls | |
Chapter 18 Governor Pyncheon Chapter 19 Alices Posies | |
The Flower of Eden | |
The Guest | |
The Pyncheon of Today | |
Clifford and Phoebe | |
The Pyncheon Garden | |
The Arched Window | |
The Departure | |
AFTERWORD | |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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