In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house.This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive old Pyncheon family.Mysterious deaths threaten the living.Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation--or its downfall.
Hawthorne called THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES "a Romance." and freely bestowed it with many fascinating gothic touches.A brilliant intertwining of the popular,the symbolic and the historical,the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel。’

Preface by the Author
1. The Old Pyncheon Family
2. The Little Shopwindow
3. The First Customer
4. A Day Behind the Counter
5. May and November
6. Maule" s Well
7. The Guest
8. The Pyncheon of Today
9. Clifford and Phoebe
10. The Pyncheon Garden
11. The Arched Window
12. The Daguerreotypist
13. Alice Pyncheon
14. Phoebe’ s Good-by
15. The Scowl and Smile
16. Clifford’s Chamber
17. The Flight of Two Owls
18. Governor Pyncheon
19. Alice’s Posies
20. The Flower of Eden
21. The Departure