![]() ![]() Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. ![]() It has been adapted for the screen several times, and inspired H. When, in the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne made his now famous distinction between the novel and the romance, he was not at all intending to assign 'truth' to the novel and mere 'fantasy,' or escapist dreaming, to the romance. The novel, claimed by Hawthorne to be a romance, has been re-categorized, controversially, several times as gothic horror, fiction, thriller, supernatural, and even fantasy. The House of the Seven Gables was inspired by the gabled home of Hawthornes cousin, and his own familys involvement in the Salem Witch Trials. ![]() But it soon becomes clear the bad luck surrounding the house is not easily overcome. When a distant relative, untouched by Colonel Pyncheons curse, moves into the gabled house and takes over the cent store, her charm and disposition brings success to the shop and the Pyncheons situation improves. Descendants of the cursed Colonel Pyncheon, they have resorted to taking in boarders and running a struggling cent store to support themselves. ![]() One hundred years after inheriting a seven-gabled house with a dark and cursed past, Clifford and Hepzibah are old and nearly destitute. ![]()
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