The House of Seven Gables Readalong

This is an edition of Hawthorne's novel about the Pyncheon family and their gloomy old house in a New England town. The house was built on land taken through an old injustice, and a family curse is said to hang over it. In the present day, the proud Judge Pyncheon, the poor and aging Hepzibah, her fragile brother Clifford, the young Phoebe and a lodger named Holgrave all find their lives bound up with the past. The book explores inherited guilt, pride, decay and the hope of renewal, and it is one of Hawthorne's finest novels.