{"id":4233,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=2984"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:10:43","slug":"2984","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=2984","title":{"rendered":"The House of Seven Gables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/sevengables.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed &quot;The Scarlet Letter,&quot; he began &quot;The House of the Seven Gables.&quot; Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family: Impact; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Since research has disclosed the manner in which the romance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, &quot;The House of the Seven Gables&quot; has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">It is of record that he used peculiar severity towards a certain woman who was among the accused; and the husband of this woman prophesied that God would take revenge upon his wife&#39;s persecutors. This circumstance doubtless furnished a hint for that piece of tradition in the book which represents a Pyncheon of a former generation as having persecuted one Maule, who declared that God would give his enemy &quot;blood to drink.&quot;<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">It became a conviction with the Hawthorne family that a curse had been pronounced upon its members, which continued in force in the time of the romancer; a conviction perhaps derived from the recorded prophecy of the injured woman&#39;s husband, just mentioned; and, here again, we have a correspondence with Maule&#39;s malediction in the story.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"4\"><strong>This classic 215 page PDF ebook comes with Master Resell Rights.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"5\">Just $1.00<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed &quot;The Scarlet Letter,&quot; he began &quot;The House of the Seven Gables.&quot; Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","edd-categories":[46],"edd-tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","download","type-download","status-publish","hentry","download_category-classic-novels-stories","edd-download","edd-download-cat-classic-novels-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/4233\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-categories&post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"download_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-tags&post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}