# The House of the Seven Gables

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- Book: [The House of the Seven Gables](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables) ([The House of the Seven Gables.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-house-of-the-seven-gables.md))
- Authors: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathaniel-hawthorne)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-005-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 1982-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet - in part because of blemishes on his own family history - he also saw the darker side of the young nation. Like his twentieth-century heirs William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hawthorne peered behind propriety's façade and exposed the true human condition.