TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawthorne,Nathaniel
TI  - The house of the seven gables
T2  - Best Loved Classics
AV  - PS1861 .A1
PY  - 0000///date of publication not identified]
CY  - [Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Haunted houses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Salem (Mass.)
N2  - Colonel Pyncheon does well in denouncing Old Matthew: he founds a New England dynasty and builds a remarkable mansion; but on its opening day he is found dead, slaked in his own blood. By 1840, that dynasty is almost spent; amid the dust and decay of the Seven Gables, Clifford and Hepzibah believe in their own continued nobility as much as they believe in the mysterious curse still tracking the Pyncheons
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