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...

This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names. The stories include:Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835)The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe, 1846)Cousin William (H...

The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne's follow-up to The Scarlet Letter, tells the story of an evil house that is haunted by the ghosts of its past and wrapped in the fear of the living.

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the su...

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 ...