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The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael Davitt Bell (Editor) Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953912-X / 019953912X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953912-3 / 9780199539123 In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. Fro |