The House of the Seven Gables

中文名：
七个尖角阁的老宅
作者：
纳撒尼尔·霍桑 Nathaniel Hawthorne
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小说经典
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The wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets the carpenter Mathew Maule’s land. A few years later, during the witch hysteria in Salem, Maule is brought before a judge on witchcraft charges and is sentenced to death. Before his execution, Maule curses the Pyncheon family. The Colonel, undaunted, continues to build an extravagant house on Maule’s property. After the house is finished, however, the Colonel is found dead, and the property deed is missing. More than 200 years later, we meet the family in its decaying, gabled mansion, still haunted by the presence of dead ancestors: Hepzibah, an elderly gentlewoman fallen on hard times; her ineffectual brother, Clifford; and young Phoebe, a country maiden who cheerfully takes it upon herself to care for her two doddering relations. There's also Holgrave, a free-spirited daguerreotypist, who makes a surprising transformation into conventional respectability. Hawthorne's masterful tales describe the brooding hold of the past over the present, twisting and turning through many generations of a venerable New England family. A true classic of American literature.

　　《七个尖角阁的老宅》又名《七个尖角阁的房子》，借用家族诅咒这一古老的哥特传统，描写了品钦家族因祖上谋财害命而使后代遭到报应的故事。 小说对七角阁老宅的描绘，处处充满着象征意义。老宅里与街道的对比是黑暗与光明的对比，老宅里表示过去、死亡、束缚和与世隔绝；街道上则象征着现在、生命、自由和现实。七角阁老宅处在形形色色的阴影之中，这些阴影象征着各种罪恶。从那张模糊不清、沾满灰尘的地图可以看到品钦法官的贪婪，从那张褪色了的画像中可以看到上校的冷酷和邪恶，从那架黑色的、样子像具棺材的大键琴上可以看到家族的傲慢。

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