The House of the Seven Gables

About the author

Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter sets a public punishment in a Puritan town and then studies the private lives around it. Guilt, in this novel, is as much a community habit as a feeling. More of this shelf for Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Where to read it

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More by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The snow-image: a childish miracle · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys · Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Scarlet Letter (1850) · Nathaniel Hawthorne

More history

• The Duel Between France and Germany (1870) · Charles Sumner
• Rob Roy — Complete · Walter Scott
• The Companions of Jehu · Alexandre Dumas
• The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto · Alexander Morris
• A Sicilian Romance · Ann Ward Radcliffe
• Pelham — Volume 03 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton