The house of the seven gables
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:52:02. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Donada Peters. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 156216 KB; MP3 file size: 306209 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Haunted houses -- Fiction Salem (Mass.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
When it was first erected, the House of Seven Gables typified the mechanical Colonel Pyncheon; but it developed through the years until, by Hepzibah's time, it has become humanized and almost organic. The history of the house is thus a record of continuity and change. Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" is a study of guilt and renewal from generation to generation. At the time of the Salem witch trials, the patriarch of the Pyncheons covets the property of a tradesman and manipulates public opinion so as to get Matthew Maule hanged for witchcraft and acquire the land. The dying man's curse on the Pyncheon family comes true generation upon generation and relationships between the families are colored forever by this "original sin." That is, until six generations later when the long-hidden truth is revealed.