House Of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1913

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1913. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1913. Greecloth/black and yellow lettering. Very Good-/no dj. 21 illustrastions from photographs by Charles S. Occott. The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The book... (wiki)/. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1913 The Riverside Press Cambridge, copyright 1913 by Houghton Mifflin Company. 21 illustrations from photographs by Charles S. Occott. Better than Very Good. Solid, spine intact, text and illustrations vibrant and clean. Covers and boards clean, colors bright.