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Hawthorne called the house of the seven gables a romance, and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. The house of the seven gables, a fixture in hawthornes salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional pyncheon familywhose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the. The novel is set in the mid19th century, although it includes glimpses into the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century. House of the seven gables in salem, massachusetts c. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that henry james declared the closest approach we are likely to have. Now judge jaffrey pyncheon, an ironhearted hypocrite and intellectual heir to the mansions unscrupulous founder, is attempting to railroad a pair of his elderly relatives out of the house. The main characters of this classics, fiction story are alice pyncheon, colonel pyncheon. The novel follows a new england family and their ancestral home. The house of the title is a gloomy new england mansion, haunted since its construction by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The house of the seven gables once a show place in a small new england town, now presents little evidence of its former grandeur. In september of the year during the february of which hawthorne had completed the scarlet letter, he began the house of the seven gables. In traditional hawthorne style, the greatest sin is the violation of the integrity of another persons soul. The novel, claimed by hawthorne to be a romance, has been recategorized, controversially, several times as gothic horror, fiction, thriller, supernatural, and even fantasy.
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