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	The House of the Seven Gables - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts.
		The House of the Seven Gables (1668) is a Colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as the title of a novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		In 1908, the house was purchased by Caroline O. Emmerton, founder of the House of Seven Gables Settlement Association, and she restored it from 1908-1910 as a museum whose admission fees would support the association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables (645 words)

	The House of the Seven Gables - Oldhouseweb.com
		Built in 1668, the house made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the oldest surviving 17th century wooden mansion in New England.
		Constructed in 1668, the House of Seven Gables typifies a tradition of wood building brought to New England by the Puritan colonists.
		In the novel, the Seven Gables is built by a greedy Colonel Pyncheon on land ill-gotten from a villager.
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	Random House Academic Resources \| The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
		The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
		The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground.
		Excerpted from The House of the Seven Gables by Mary Oliver.
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	The House of the Seven Gables (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_(novel) (207 words)

	SparkNotes: The House of the Seven Gables: Chapters 1–2
		In a nook between two of the gables grows a cluster of flowers known as Alice’s Posies, named after an old legend that told of Alice Pyncheon flinging up flower seeds for fun; the resulting flowers were said to thrive in the dust and dirt collected on the roof.
		The murder of old Jaffrey Pyncheon by his nephew is also irrevocably tied to the house of seven gables: after the crime, Judge Pyncheon moves away and soon becomes happy, prosperous, and successful, although his return to the house in later chapters will signify his downfall.
		The house has been presented as a place of great evil, where even the waters now run fl, but here we see its sole resident as a miserable but not unbearable character, running around with a frenzy that is decidedly human.
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		His home would include the home of the dead and buried wizard, and would thus afford the ghost of the latter a kind of privilege to haunt its new apartments, and the chambers into which future bridegrooms were to lead their brides, and where children of the Pyncheon blood were to be born.
		On the triangular portion of the gable, that fronted next the street, was a dial, put up that very morning, and on which the sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.
		The sordid and ugly luxuriance of gigantic weeds that grew in the angle of the house, and the heavy projection that overshadowed her, and the time-worn framework of the door,--none of these things belonged to her sphere.
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		THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES by Nathaniel Hawthorne I. The Old Pyncheon Family 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.
		In the front gable, under the impending brow of the second story, and contiguous to the street, was a shop-door, divided horizontally in the midst, and with a window for its upper segment, such as is often seen in dwellings of a somewhat ancient date.
		She at length withdrew her eyes from the dark countenance of the Colonel's portrait, heaved a sigh, --indeed, her breast was a very cave of Aolus that morning, --and stept across the room on tiptoe, as is the customary gait of elderly women.
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	'The House of the Seven Gables' - Scott Eyerly - USOperaWeb Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But with The House of the Seven Gables, we had also had a couple of workshops with the Center for Contemporary Opera, and I had done so much rewriting before the rehearsals, that once rehearsals started, hardly any changes were made.
		She had come up with the idea of having seven ghosts present throughout the opera, that silently comment on the action from time to time.
		Well, for the ending instead of the curtain ringing down as the principals left the house, Linda had staged it so that the seventh ghost wafted across the room and left quietly, closing the door softly behind her as a moonbeam comes up on a single rose.
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	Charity's Place.com > The House of Seven Gables
		Jealousy and betrayal are the themes of this 1940 adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale, The House of the Seven Gables.
		Legend has it that within the walls of Seven Gables is hidden the key to a great fortune.
		This is but the beginning of the tale of Seven Gables, for though Clifford has been issued out of the house, life there still remains in his fiancée, Hepzibah (Margaret Lindsay).
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	Matthew Modafferi on the House of the Seven Gables
		Matthew Modafferi on the House of the Seven Gables
		Nonetheless, the gables were later put back on and the House of the Seven Gables still has the 17th century plain, Puritan colonial look to it.
		The mere fact that so many readers are interested in connecting the house and the text may lead one to believe that by writing the preface to the novel, Hawthorne was tempting his audience to in fact see and experience the setting for themselves.
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	Ch. 5, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		The mistress of the house, meanwhile, as is usual with persons of her stiff and unmalleable cast, stood mostly aside; willing to lend her aid, yet conscious that her natural inaptitude would be likely to impede the business in hand.
		She was very pretty; as graceful as a bird, and graceful much in the same way; as pleasant about the house as a gleam of sunshine falling on the floor through a shadow of twinkling leaves, or as a ray of firelight that dances on the wall, while evening is drawing nigh.
		But, even now, she was supposed to haunt the House of the Seven Gables, and, a great many times,--especially when one of the Pyncheons was to die,--she had been heard playing sadly and beautifully on the harpsichord.
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	Ch. 13, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		The peaks of the seven gables rose up sharply; the shingled roof looked thoroughly water-tight; and the glittering plaster-work entirely covered the exterior walls, and sparkled in the October sun, as if it had been new only a week ago.
		The house had that pleasant aspect of life which is like the cheery expression of comfortable activity in the human countenance.
		Indeed, at this new demand on the carpenter's part, the proprietor of the seven gables was even more thunder-struck than at the cool proposition to surrender his house.
	www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/nh/sg13.html (6522 words)

	House of the Seven Gables - Kingwood Library
		In this gothic novel of greed and retribution, Hawthorne uses a curse to haunt the impressive House of the Seven Gables.
		Colonel Pyncheon, who wrested the prime lot from Matthew Maule, a poor man who was hanged for wizardry, was never to live in the house he had built.
		Discussion of the theme of The House of the Seven Gables.
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	The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, is haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, wracked by the fear of its frightened living.
		Written as a follow-up to The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables is truly a masterful blending of the actual and the imaginary.
		In novels like The House of the Seven Gables the author has not only a theme but an analysis of the mind; yet the story is surprising clear.
	www.online-literature.com /hawthorne/seven_gables (1260 words)

	Welcome to Salem's premiere historic site, The House of Seven Gables - The oldest surviving mansion in New England! ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When you arrive at The House of the Seven Gables - which constitutes its own national historic district on The National Register of Historic places - professional guides will warmly greet you for an unforgettable historical experience.
		The House of the Seven Gables inspired author Nathaniel Hawthorne to write his legendary novel of the same name.
		As a matter of fact, the very home where Hawthorne was born, was moved to the grounds of The House of the Seven Gables and now lies just feet away from the mysterious mansion made famous in fiction.
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	The House Of The Seven Gables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables is a romantic novel set in a grand and rustic, old house with seven gables in New England town.
		When her money was running out, Hepzibah was forced to open little bakeshop in the front gable of the house and abandon her illusion of aristocracy.
		Like a ray of sunshine, she lights up the house with her beauty, simplicity, and free-spiritedness After 30 years in prison, Hepzibah's brother, Clifford, is released and comes home to the house of seven gables.
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	The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the triangular portion of the gable, that fronted next the street, was a dial, put up that very morning, and on which the sun was stili marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.
		Nor would it have been singular had they ceased to remember that the House of the Seven Gables was resting its heavy frame-work on a foundation that was rightfully their own.
		Behind the house there appeared to be a garden, which undoubtedly had once been extensive, but was now infringed upon by other enclosures, or shut in by habitations and out-buildings that stood on another street.
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	Title: The House of the Seven Gables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here lies the House of the Seven Gables; a house filled with so much mystery, some explained, some unexplained that it is hard to know where to begin.
		Hepzibah Pyncheon is the only inhabitant of the House of the Seven Gables for quite some time until Clifford comes and she decides to take care of him.
		Holgrave is an inhabitant of the house and somewhat of a mystery until the end.
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	SparkNotes: The House of the Seven Gables: Chapters 9–10
		Phoebe, we are told, is noticeably developing into a woman, a strange claim when one considers that she has been at the house for only a matter of weeks, but one that is stressed nonetheless.
		Phoebe’s annoyance with Clifford’s martyrdom may indicate that not everything in The House of the Seven Gables is as predestined as its owners have come to believe.
		The bean vines are an obvious indicator of this growth, and they also come to stand for the more general revitalization of the house of the seven gables.
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	World's Greatest Classic Books - The House Of The Seven Gables
		The effect of Hawthorne’s creation of isolated and withdrawn characters, and his probing of the psychology that led to their alienation, may now be seen in the novels of such various writers as Henry James, William Faulkner, Albert Camus, and Robert Penn Warren.
		Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a city already infamous in American history for its campaign in the 1690s against “witches.” In The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne uses references to Salem witchcraft in his examination of the forces that motivated some of the characters in his novel.
		Unlike The Scarlet Letter, which is about events in the seventeenth century, The House of the Seven Gables is set in Hawthorne’s own era, in 1850.
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	The House of the Seven Gables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Came to the house looking for a new home and was nearly turned away by Hepzibah, but ended up staying and growing close to she and her brother Clifford.
		The House of the Seven Gables opens with a haunting and scary scene where Colnel Pyncheon is mysteriously murdered in the office of his own home.
		Forever after, the house is doomed to a dark and drab state even though many decades of Pyncheons make home in it.
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	Ch. 21, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		21, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		Very soon after their change of fortune, Clifford, Hepzibah, and little Phoebe, with the approval of the artist, concluded to remove from the dismal old House of the Seven Gables, and take up their abode, for the present, at the elegant country-seat of the late Judge Pyncheon.
		The son of the executed Matthew Maule, while building this house, took the opportunity to construct that recess, and hide away the Indian deed, on which depended the immense land-claim of the Pyncheons.
	www.ibiblio.org /eldritch/nh/sg21.html (3240 words)

	Amazon.de: The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance (The World's Best Reading): English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At any rate the house was built in the grotesqueness of Gothic fancy with seven gables pointing sharply to the sky.
		On the day of the ceremony of consecration of the house, Colonel Pyncheon suddenly died and some said that Maule's prophecy could be heard throughout the house spoken in a loud voice...
		It is the legend of the House of the Seven Gables that makes the novel interesting - the curse the House bears and those troubled characters living within neglected walls and shrouding darkness make for an intruiging read.
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	Ch. 17, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		17, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
		They met few people abroad, even on passing from the retired neighborhood of the House of the Seven Gables into what was ordinarily the more thronged and busier portion of the town.
		At last, therefore, and after so long estrangement from everything that the world acted or enjoyed, they had been drawn into the great current of human life and were swept away with it, as by the suction of fate itself.
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	THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES - CHAPTER XVIII. - GOVENOR PYNCHEON
		JUDGE PYNCHEON, while his two relatives have fled away with such ill-considered haste, still sits in the old parlor, keeping house, as the familiar phrase is, in the absence of its ordinary occupants.
		To him, and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables, does our story now betake itself, like an owl, bewildered in the daylight, and hastening back to his hollow tree.
		The old house creaks again, and makes a vociferous but somewhat unintelligible bellowing in its sooty throat (the big flue, we mean, of its wide chimney), partly in complaint at the rude wind, but rather, as befits their century and a half of hostile intimacy, in tough defiance.
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	Amazon.ca: The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hawthorne's tale about the brooding hold of the past over the present is a complex one, twisting and turning its way back through many generations of a venerable New England family, one of whose members was accused of witchcraft in 17th century Salem.
		More than 200 years later, we meet the family in its decaying, gabled mansion, still haunted by the presence of dead ancestors: Hepzibah, an elderly gentlewoman fallen on had times; her ineffectual brother, Clifford; and young Phoebe, a country maiden who cheerfully takes it upon herself to care for her two doddering relations.
		This is certainly true of "The House of the Seven Gables," which explores the idea of character flaws, evil and retribution passed down from generation to generation in a single family.
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	Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables
		Accordingly, with such a tramp of his ponderous riding-boots as might of itself have been audible in the remotest of the seven gables, he advanced to the door, which the servant pointed out, and made its new panels reecho with a loud, free knock.
		It rustled the silken garments of the ladies, and waved the long curls of the gentlemen's wigs, and shook the window-hangings and the curtains of the bedchambers; causing everywhere a singular stir, which yet was more like a hush.
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