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The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston.The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and ...
La casa de los siete tejados (The House of the Seven Gables) es una novela de Nathaniel Hawthorne publicada en 1851, generalmente reconocida como la mejor novela estadounidense de este período. Tiene lugar en la casa homónima de Salem, Massachusetts. [1] La novela tiene como escenario una casa, indudablemente peculiar, construida en el siglo XVII y ubicada en el centro de Salem, en una ...
The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851.The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch trials.The greed and arrogance of the novel’s Pyncheon family through the generations are ...
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 loom large over The House of the Seven Gables, as they did over Hawthorne’s own life. The Trials began after two little girls accused three women (a slave, a beggar, and a poor elderly woman) of supernaturally afflicting them with strange fits. Over the coming months, dozens of people, mostly women, were tried ...
La Casa de los Siete Tejados (en inglés: House of the Seven Gables; también conocida como la casa de los Turner o la mansión de los Turner-Ingersoll) es una mansión colonial construida en 1668 en Salem, Massachusetts, EE. UU. Con sus 17 habitaciones y más de 700 metros cuadrados, constituye una de las mansiones más antiguas de América ...
27 de jul. de 2021 · It was a death that blasted with strange horror the humble name of the dweller in the cottage, and made it seem almost a religious act to drive the plough over the little area of his habitation, and obliterate his place and memory from among men. Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft.
The house of seven gables is a good read, it shows certain tendencies of the human state that can be improved upon, and it exposes qualities especially regarding lineage and folklore that can be outlived. It shows that the power of the past is but a choice, whether we acknowledge its ruling power or not is a decision made by the present.
