House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is a darkly beautiful romance of guilt inherited and slowly repaid. Two centuries ago the Pyncheon family seized their land by sending an innocent man to the gallows for witchcraft - and his dying curse has shadowed the house ever since. Today the gabled mansion shelters the proud, impoverished Hepzibah, her gentle brother broken by a wrongful im...