Plot Summary The story springs from the actions of Colonel Pyncheon, whose mysterious death seems to have been a direct result of his prior evil conduct. He built The House of the Seven Gables on a plot of land that he had wrongly taken from Matthew Maule in Salem, Massachusetts. Maule, who, was hung during the Salem witch hunts in 1692 for allegedly practicing witchcraft, suspected Colonel Pyncheon of encouraging the persecution so that he could …showed first 75 words of 904 total…

…showed last 75 words of 904 total…structure of early America. Hawthorne published his most well known work The Scarlet Letter in 1849. In the spring of 1850, he moved to Lennox, Massachusetts where he began writing The House of the Seven Gables, which was less somber than The Scarlet Letter. During this period, he also wrote The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales (1851), A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1851), The Blithesdale Romance (1852), and Tanglewood Tales (1853). The Marble Faun was published in 1860