House shops of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1892 Salem Edition

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House of the Seven Gables
By Nathaniel Hawthorn
1892 Salem Edition
Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Red & white Hardcover boards,gilt lettering & design, 361 pages, in good condition, covers show expected surface wear, bumped edges & corners, spine is tight pages are smooth intact with foxing & browning.

Hawthorne prepares readers for the fluid mixture of realism and fantasy that the romance genre allows. The major theme of the book, which Hawthorne refers to as moral: “the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and ….becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.”
A battered house with seven gables stands in a small New England town. The house belonged to the Pyncheon family, has a long and controversial history. In the mid -1600s, a local farmer named Matthew Maule builds a house on fertile land near a pleasant spring.

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