The house of the seven gables / [print]
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, (c)1999.
- x, 224 pages ; 21 cm.
- Dover thrift editions .
- Dover thrift editions. .
This 1851 classic about an ancient New England mansion, its inhabitants, and curses reflects Hawthorne's recurring theme of ancestral guilt because of his forebears' involvement in the 17th century Salem witch trials.