The House of the Seven Gables FULL AUDIOBOOK Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables FULL AUDIOBOOK Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones becomes a pure and uncontrollable Hawthorne s moral for The House of the Seven Gables, taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be but the land s owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution. Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirtyyear sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kin
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