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Nathaniel Hawthorne  \n# Novels\n\nTHE SCARLET LETTER*THE BLITHEDALE RoMANCETHE MARBLE FAUNFANSHAWE  \n# Short Stories\n\nTWICE-ToLD TALES  \nMoSSES FROM AN OLD MANSETANGLEWOOD TALES  \n*Available as a Barnes &Noble Classic  \nNathaniel HawthorneTHE HoUSE OF THESEVENGABLES  \nIntroduction copyright ◎2000 by Barnes &Noble,Inc.  \nThe text of this edition of The House of the Seven Gablesis published by arrangement with Doubleday Direct,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in anymanner whatsoever without written permission of the Publisher.  \n2000 Barnes &Noble Books  \nISBN 0-7607-1998-5 casebound  \nISBN 0-7607-1871-7 trade paperback  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America  \n0001020304 MC 9876543210001020304 MT 987654321  \nBVG  \nCONTENTS  \nCHAPTER  \nPAGEI THE OLD PYNCHEON FAMILYIII THE LrTTLE SHOp-WINDOw25III THE FIRST CusTOMER37IV A DAY BEHIND THE CoUINTERV MAY AND NoVEMBER64VI MAULE's WELLVII THE GuEST90VIII THE PYNCHEON OF To-DAY1o6IX CLIFFORD AND PHCEBEI23X THE PYNCHEON GARDENI35XI THE ARCHED WINDow148XII THE DAGUERREOTYPISTI61XIII ALICE PYNCHEONI75XIV PHCEBE's GoOD-BYEI97XV THE ScowL AND SMILE208XVI CLIFFORD's CHAMBER224  \n50  \n79  \nviTHE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES  \nXVII THE FLIGHT OF Two OwLS  \nXVIII GoVERNOR PYNCHEON  \nXIX ALICE's PosIES  \nXX THE FLoWER OF EDEN  \nXXI THE DEPARTURE  \n236  \n250  \n265  \n8  \n289  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE died in 1864—a bitter,disappointed man.He had written himself out,no longer convinced of the merits andrelevance of his allegorical romances.The past had always heldgreater sway over his imagination than “the Present,the Immediate,the Actual.”He often spoke of the “unreality”of the present,itsessential dreaminess,its flitting and ephemeral nature,fixable onlythrough the complex machinery of allegory.\"An old man,\"the pen-sioner complains in Dr.Grimshawe's Secret,one of several romancesleft unfinished at Hawthorne's death,“grows dreamy as he waxesaway....But I should think it hardly worth while to call up one ofmy shifting dreams over another.\"Hawthorne had always beendeeply ambivalent about the nature of his art,speaking of it simul-taneously as high truth and mere trickery.By the 186os he could nolonger find any compelling reason to prefer one“shifting dream”toanother.His romances had at last become as unreal to him as thenational crisis he could not fathom.Hawthorne believed slavery wasan evil that could not be remedied by any human intervention,onlyby Providence.“[W]hen all [slavery's]uses have been fulfilled,”hewrote,Providence will cause it “to vanish like a dream.”He wouldhave preferred to simply let the South peaceably go its own way.“New England,\"he confessed,\"is as large a lump of earth as myheart can hold.\"Hawthorne could no longer connect the past to apresent from which he felt increasingly alienated.In 1861 the guns  \nviiiTHE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES  \nat Fort Sumter finally exploded reality into a thousand indecipher-able fragments.  \nDuring the two decades in which he wrote stories,as well as TheScarlet Letter,The House of the Seven Gables,and The BlithedaleRomance,the past held a firm grip on Hawthorne's imagination.That past was shaped and colored by the myths,legends,and tradi-tions of his New England ancestors.Hawthorne traced his lineageto the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.He was descendedfrom the Puritan William Hathorne,who emigrated from England inI630.It was William Hathorne who,as a magistrate,ordered theflogging ofa Quaker woman in Salem.William's son,John,was oneof three judges who presided over the Salem witch trials in 1692.Hawthorne's\"sable-cloaked,steeple-crowned progenitors\"hauntedhis imagination.T.S.Eliot,another writer with deep New Englandroots,spoke of Hawthorne's overwhelming “ghost sense.”Hawthorne believed past generations lay on top of the living oneslike an incubus or like “a 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