The House of the Seven Gables
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Published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables centres on an old New England mansion burdened by the legacy of an ancestral injustice. Within its shadowed rooms, the impoverished Hepzibah Pyncheon, her brother Clifford and their young cousin Phoebe confront a family history shaped by greed, accusation and inherited guilt. The arrival of the enigmatic Holgrave unsettles the household’s carefully preserved past.
Hawthorne blends Gothic atmosphere with a distinctly American interest in history, conscience and the moral consequences of property. The house itself becomes a powerful symbol of the way old wrongs can persist within apparently respectable institutions. More than a tale of family secrets, the novel asks whether the present can escape the burdens of history without first acknowledging them.
From the book
“The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
On The House of the Seven Gables
“One of Hawthorne’s most characteristic romances.”
— Literary critical tradition