Reviews for The House of the Seven Gables
Review - House of the Seven Gables, The
Hawthorne has nothing to say, but he says it better than anyone.
Reviewed by Roger on 1998-09-10 12:00:00
The House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Mystery" |
| Pages: | 286 |
| Year of Publication: | 1851 |
| Date Read: | 08/24/1988 |
| Notes: | An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living … Four Pyncheons play a part inside the blighted house: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse; Clifford, her feeble-minded brother; Pheobe, their young country cousin … and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate whose greedy quest for secret wealth is marked by murder and terrible vengeance from the grave. COMMENTS — The House of the Seven Gables is a somber study in hereditary sin. The author based the story on an actual house in Salem, Massachusetts and on a curse pronounced on his own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witchcraft trials by his own great grandfather, a judge at the actual trials. |
| My Rating: | 7 |