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First edition title page. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and ...
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 344
- 1851
- April 9th, 1851
La casa dei sette abbaini è un romanzo di Nathaniel Hawthorne, pubblicato nel 1851.. Nella prefazione Hawthorne prepara i lettori alla fluida mescolanza di realismo e fantastico che caratterizza l'opera; sempre nella prefazione l'autore dichiara anche il tema principale del libro, che sintetizza in una vera e propria morale: le malefatte di una generazione ricadono su quelle successive.
- La casa dalle sette torri, La casa dei sette frontoni, La casa dei sette tetti
- 1851
- The House of the Seven Gables
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch trials. The greed and arrogance of the novel ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 loom large over The House of the Seven Gables, as they did over Hawthorne’s own life. The Trials began after two little girls accused three women (a slave, a beggar, and a poor elderly woman) of supernaturally afflicting them with strange fits. Over the coming months, dozens of people, mostly women, were tried ...
Overview. The House of the Seven Gables, published in 1851, is a Gothic novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne that delves into the dark secrets and curses haunting the Pyncheon family in their ancestral home. The story unfolds through generations, intertwining themes of guilt, redemption, and the weight of the past. The mysterious house ...
27 lug 2021 · It was a death that blasted with strange horror the humble name of the dweller in the cottage, and made it seem almost a religious act to drive the plough over the little area of his habitation, and obliterate his place and memory from among men. Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft.
The house, which belongs 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. In the late 1600s, the surrounding neighborhood has become fashionable, and the wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets Maule’s land.
