The House of the Seven Gables
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Ryan Conary
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1439662010
The House of the Seven Gables is an American icon. It is one of the nation's oldest homes and one of its first historic house museums. Built in 1668, it is a unique and well-restored first period house displaying many preserved 17th- and 18th-century architectural features. Three generations of the seafaring Turner family lived in the home before the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne was hosted in the house by his cousin, and the setting encouraged his literary genius. After this famous association, the house attracted tourists even before it opened to the public when the artistic Upton family called the mansion home. In 1910, Caroline Emmerton, an enterprising philanthropist, opened the home to raise money to help local immigrants. She restored the structure and brought other historic houses from Salem to the property.
Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416553444
The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.
Author : Hawthorne
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781424005413
An abridged version of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred-year-old curse.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Enders A. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
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A detailed and highly readable account of the Salem witchcraft affair of 1692 in three parts. R0515HB - $32.50
Author : Keith Garebian
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
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The common lament was Broadway will never be the same! when My Fair Lady finally ended its stellar run the night of Sunday, September 30, 1962. Millions of people had seen the show over six years and had helped break box-office records, even though Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, and Robert Coote did not stay with the cast throughout the six-year run. MyFair Lady used the substance and wit of George Bernard Shaw to add a new dimension to the Broadway libretto.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451524362
An evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, is haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead and wracked by the fear of its frightened living.
Author : C. Greenshields
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Michigan
ISBN : 9781691319565
The Whiting family has no idea what hell is in store for them. They are drawn into a downward spiral of psychological and supernatural torture . The Great Beast has turned its will against all that would stand in the way of the immolation of all mankind. Unwittingly, John Whiting built his home and brought his family into the lair of The Witch of Seven Gables. In this excerpt from Chapter Two, Remember the Maine, you get a taste for what will follow. (WARNING: graphic description to follow, may not be suitable for younger readers).Somewhere deep in the primitive part of his brain, something compelled him to look over his shoulder and be prepared to fight. He felt a shudder in his spine. To lay eyes upon the thing turned his blood to sleet. Impossibly fast, the blue apparition charged from the distance toward him, bent on murder. Stricken, he watched the horror close in on him. A corpse woman wrapped in its awful shroud cast in a blue light from a hellish place bore down on him faster than anything could possibly move. Paralyzed, he begged his leaden arms and legs to move, but to no avail. The closer the wraith came, the more urgency he felt. The awful, scorching heat of terror burned his flesh until he unlocked somehow and began to move, but he could only scramble back, reeling with affright. Stumbling backward over a rotten log he fell, never taking eyes off the ghoulish figure overtaking him. Down he fell on his ass. Then a flash of light following the blow to the back of his head from falling against an unforgiving surface. His eyes closed, and he was out. One, two, then he slowly returned to his senses. 'Fight dammit, ' he thought, forcing his eyes to open. The corpse woman was face-to-face with him. He could feel the cold of her skin near his face. Trying to perceive what his eyes were seeing, staring back into his eyes were the dimly veiled, white opaque eyes of the dead. Her mouth was open to bite his face, she moved in now and he could smell the s***-smelling foulness of her corpsey maw. Rotten flesh, grey gums and inky teeth all showing from the grimace of decay and ferocity. An inch from his face she paused above him and arched her back as if to draw breath, and then the scream smashed his brain like a hatchet. The sound made him scramble to his feet wincing from the bite that he knew was coming.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a " mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, " lives caught in the common fire of history." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text.