An old New England family lives under the shadow of a centuries-old curse laid upon their gabled mansion, as the impoverished spinster Hepzibah, her gentle broken brother Clifford, and their bright young cousin Phoebe confront a scheming judge and the inherited guilt of their Puritan ancestors.
Books mentioned in The House of the Seven Gables (3)
Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage: “A romance on the plan of Gil Blas, adapted to American society and manners, would cease to be a romance.”
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope: “There was a volume of Pope, with the Rape of the Lock in it, and another of the Tatler”
Dryden's Miscellanies by John Dryden: “and an odd one of Dryden’s Miscellanies, all with tarnished gilding on their covers”
Books that mention The House of the Seven Gables (1)
11/22/63 by Stephen King: “Who wrote “The House of 7 Tables”? (appears twice in the text; kept as a low-confidence judgment call as a likely mangled reference to Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, not a match to any other real work.)”