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The House Of The Seven Gables (novel)




  Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Country United States
  Language English
  Genre Romance
  Publisher Wildside Press
  Release Date 1851
  Media Type Print ( Hardback & Paperback )
  Pages 368
  Isbn ISBN 0809598752


The House of the Seven Gables is a Novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne .

The novel begins:

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.


It is interesting to note that the Pyncheon family actually existed and were ancestors of American novelist Thomas Pynchon .


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