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The House Of The Seven Gables; The Snow-Image And Other twice-Told Tales
The House Of The Seven Gables The SnowImage And Other twiceTold Tales Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne The House Of The Seven Gables; The Snow-Image And Other twice-Told Tales. IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed The Scarlet Letter, he began The House of the Seven Gables. Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, hIassachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wo... more »oden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl. I shall have the new story ready by November, he explained to his publisher, on the 1st of October, for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me - muItiplying and brightening its hue. But by vigorous application he was able to cornplete the new work about the middle of the January following. Since research has disclosed the manner in which the romance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family. The House of The Seven Gables has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne as the name was then spelIed, the great grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne...« less