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The Pyncheons, having lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who once occupied the land on which the family mansion was built, gain a new lease on life with the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country.
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The ancient mansion of the story is cursed with a hidden secret. When its two frail and aged inhabitants Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are joined by their vivacious young cousin Phoebe, the mystery looks set to be resolved. The music is by Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Couperin.
4) Novels
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Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
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520 Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, "The Scarlet Letter," is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. "The Blithedale...
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Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of family honor brings us the Pyncheon family. From the deception of the first Colonel Pyncheon to the evilness of the current Judge Pyncheon, the family's curses, troubles, and few happinesses are revealed. Follow all the happenings tf the family home in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation.
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1981
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English
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The Sarlet letter, set in Boston is about a young woman who must wear a scarlet A on her clothing as a sign of her sin of adultery. She was led into sin by her pastor who confesses just before he dies and ; The house of seven gables which is about the Pyncheon family who lived for years in a house under a man's curse until his death restores the peace of their house.
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Grolier Enterprises
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English
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A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its...
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Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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The film contains three gripping, diabolical nightmares of madness, mayhem and murder most foul. Price stars in all three stories, including: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment about a scientist who finds the fountain of youth, and lives to regret it; Rappaccini's daughter, the twisted tale of a demented father who's love his daughter turns poisonous; and The house of the seven gables, the ghostly legend of an ancient cursed family who lived for power and...