Two printings were issued in the first month, a third in may, and a fourth in september 1851, totaling 6,710 copies in its first year slightly more than the scarlet letter in its first year. That may be the authors preference, but i think most romance fans will be disappointed if they read this book. Hepzibah is an old spinster who lives in the house alone save for a lodger, a certain respectable and orderly young man, an artist in the daguerreotype line, who has lived in a remote part of the house for three months. The house of seven gables audiobook nathaniel hawthorne. The wealthy colonel pyncheon covets the carpenter mathew maules land.
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