The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A cursed New England mansion, a proud impoverished spinster, her broken brother, and the smiling judge whose ancestor stole the land, until young love finally lifts the shadow. Hawthorne's haunted romance of inherited guilt.

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