House of the Seven Gables

Denis Donoghue has taught English, Irish, and American Literature at University College, Dublin; Cambridge University and King’s College, Cambridge; and New York University.

• * Introduction to The House of the Seven Gables * Textual Introduction: The House of the Seven Gables * Note on the Typesetting * Preface * The Old Pyncheon Family * The Little Shop-Window * The First Customer * A Day behind the Counter * May and November * Maule's Well * The Guest * The Pyncheon of To-day * Clifford and Phoebe * The Pyncheon-Garden * The Arched Window * The Daguerreotypist * Alice Pyncheon * Phoebe's Good Bye * The Scowl and Smile * Clifford's Chamber * The Flight of Two Owls * Governor Pyncheon * Alice's Posies * The Flower of Eden * The Departure * Textual Notes * Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text * Rejected First-Edition Substantive Readings * Word-Division * Historical Collation * Alterations in the Manuscript * Compositorial Stints in the First Edition * The Centenary Texts: Editorial Principles * Appendix to the Second Printing