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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university.
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne INTRODUCT ODUCTOR ORY NOTE: IN SEPTEMBER of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed “The Scarlet Letter,” he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl. 3 “I sha’n’t have the new story ready by November,” he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, “for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me-multiplying and brightening its hues.” But by vigorous application he was able to complete the new work about the middle of the January following. Since research has disclosed the manner in which the romance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there. It is of record that he used peculiar severity towards a certain woman who was among the accused; and the husband of this woman prophesied that God would take revenge upon his wife’s persecutors. This circumstance doubtless furnished a hint for that piece of tradition in the book which repre-
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Hawthorne out three wives, and, mer
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Hawthorne trust her baby with him;
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Hawthorne existence, but for everyt
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Hawthorne there was an uncouthness
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Hawthorne was content, whether the
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Hawthorne felt something; a tender
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Hawthorne about them; they are comp
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Hawthorne gree more successful than
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Hawthorne ing whether there were st
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Hawthorne spent much of their abund
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Hawthorne petty errands, the patche
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Hawthorne fellows. Fate has no happ
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Hawthorne oms, but in its aggregate
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Hawthorne her snowy stockings—had
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Hawthorne her friends and herself,
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Hawthorne revolution of his sentime
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Hawthorne upon the Present like a g
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Hawthorne keep the spirits out of t
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Hawthorne merely tarried to finish
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Hawthorne One evening, at a bridal
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Hawthorne He made a slight gesture
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Hawthorne and poor Cousin Clifford.
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Hawthorne Clifford’s misfortunes,
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Hawthorne the angels to whom Uncle
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Hawthorne cayed widow, whose husban
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