The house of the seven gables / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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.

The house of the Seven gables . . . cursed for more than two hundred years . . . home of the strange and proud Pyncheon family. Then a lovely young girl comes to live in the old mansion, and she and the man she loves unlock its ancient mystery. Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece about a family founded on evil - and redeemed through the power of love.

In 17th-century New England, Hepzibah Pyncheon tries to protect her ex-convict brother from the persecution of the unscrupulous Judge Pyncheon.

Follows the Pyncheon family who lived for generations under a dead man's curse until his death restored their house.