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NathanielHawthorne’sTheHouseoftheSevenGablesisaclassicofAmericanliterature,writtenbyoneofthecountry’sgreatestwriters.Firstpublishedin1851,thebookissetinamansionnotunlikehiscousin’smany-gabledhomeinSalem,Massachusetts,whichHawthornevisitedregularly.CarolineO.Emmerton’sintroductorynotetothis1913editiondetailsthehistoryofthehouse,fromitsconstructioncirca1668toitspurchaseandrestorationbyEmmertonintheearly1900s.EmmertonfoundedtheHouseoftheSevenGablesSettlementAssociationin1910,toservethegrowingpopulationofimmigrantfactoryworkersflockingtoSalem.TohelpfundtheSettlementHouse,themansionopeneditsdoorstothepublicasamuseum,alsoin1910.Thiseditionisillustratedwith16photographsofinteriorandexteriorviewsofthehouse.
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