House of the Seven Gables. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1851 book, The House of the Seven Gables
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The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
movie vs book
Heather Bellinger, 2022

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford’s false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford’s sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.