The House of the Seven Gables
An old New England mansion, built on stolen ground and shadowed by an ancestral curse, broods over the impoverished Pyncheon family—the timid spinster Hepzibah, the sunny young Phoebe, and a sinister, ambitious judge—as the sins of the past reach into the present. Hawthorne weaves guilt, decay, and the possibility of renewal into a richly atmospheric Gothic romance. A meditation on inherited wrong and the weight of history, The House of the Seven Gables blends dark New England legend with hope for release from the past. Haunting and beautifully written, it is one of Hawthorne’s finest works, a moody American classic about a family and a house under a shadow.
About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th-century American novelist and short-story writer central to the Dark Romantic movement. He is best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, with their themes of sin, guilt, and Puritan New England.
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The House of the Seven Gables (1851) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preface | 5:56 | |
| 2 | The Old Pyncheon Family | 53:31 | |
| 3 | The Little Shop Window | 26:10 | |
| 4 | The First Customer | 28:30 | |
| 5 | A Day Behind the Counter | 29:07 | |
| 6 | May and November | 31:09 | |
| 7 | Maule's Well | 22:27 | |
| 8 | The Guest | 36:12 | |
| 9 | The Pyncheon of To-day | 36:12 | |
| 10 | Clifford and Phoebe | 26:45 | |
| 11 | The Pyncheon Garden | 29:07 | |
| 12 | The Arched Window | 29:54 | |
| 13 | The Daguerreotypist | 28:39 | |
| 14 | Alice Pyncheon | 47:39 | |
| 15 | Phoebe's Good-bye | 22:41 | |
| 16 | The Scowl and Smile | 34:11 | |
| 17 | Clifford's Chamber | 26:17 | |
| 18 | The Flight of Two Owls | 30:10 | |
| 19 | Governor Pyncheon | 36:59 | |
| 20 | Alice's Posies | 32:15 | |
| 21 | The Flower of Eden | 19:40 | |
| 22 | The Departure | 23:52 |
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