The House of the Seven Gables

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Gothic novel novel

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Gothic novel → novel →
adaptedAs	The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film) → The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) → The House of the Seven Gables (1940 film) → The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film) →
author	Nathaniel Hawthorne →
centralLocation	Pyncheon family mansion → fictional town of Salem-like New England seaport →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
firstEditionFormat	print →
firstEditionMediaType	hardcover →
follows	The Scarlet Letter →
genre	Gothic fiction → psychological fiction → romantic fiction →
hasPageIn	Internet Archive → Project Gutenberg → Wikipedia → Wikisource →
hasTitle	The House of the Seven Gables →
literaryMovement	American Romanticism →
mainCharacter	Clifford Pyncheon → Hepzibah Pyncheon → Holgrave → Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon → Phoebe Pyncheon →
narrativePerspective	third-person omniscient →
notableFor	depiction of a haunted New England mansion → exploration of moral and psychological effects of ancestral guilt →
originalLanguage	English →
partOf	19th-century American literature canon →
placeOfPublication	Boston →
publicationDate	1851 →
publisher	Ticknor, Reed and Fields →
setInCountry	United States →
setInPeriod	19th century →
setInRegion	New England →
theme	class and social change → decay and renewal → family curse → guilt → inherited sin → retribution → the burden of the past →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The Blithedale Romance →	follows
The House of the Seven Gables →	hasTitle
Nathaniel Hawthorne →	notableWork