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The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a recognized classic of American literature.
The novel begins:
The Pyncheon family actually existed and were ancestors of American novelist Thomas Pynchon.
The House of the Seven Gables was at one time owned by Hawthorne's cousin, Susanna Ingersoll, and she entertained him there often. Ingersoll inspired him to write the fictional novel. Its seven-gabled state was known only to Hawthorne...
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