CONTENTS

Introduction

Note on the Text

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A Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

Preface

I The Old Pyncheon Family

II The Little Shop-Window

III The First Customer

IV A Day behind the Counter

V May and November

VI Maule’s Well

VII The Guest

VIII The Pyncheon of To-day

IX Clifford and Phoebe

X The Pyncheon-Garden

XI The Arched Window

XII The Daguerreotypist

XIII Alice Pyncheon

XIV Phoebe’s Good Bye

XV The Scowl and Smile

XVI Clifford’s Chamber

XVII The Flight of Two Owls

XVIII Governor Pyncheon

XIX Alice’s Posies

XX The Flower of Eden

XXI The Departure

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