The House of the Seven Gables

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IN September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed The Scarlet Letter he began The House of the Seven Gables. Meanwhile he had removed from Salem to Lenox in Berkshire County Massachusetts where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house still standing at the date of this edition near the Stockbridge Bowl. I sha'n't have the new story ready by November he explained to his publisher on the 1st of October for I am never good for anything in the literary way till after the first autumnal frost which has somewhat such an effect on my imagination that it does on the foliage here about me-multiplying and brightening its hues. But by vigorous application he was able to complete the new work about the middle of the January following.