The House of the Seven Gables av Nathaniel Hawthorne

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<p><strong>Alex Katz illustrates Hawthorne¿s classic gothic tale of Puritan New England</strong></p><p>While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne¿s gothic romance, <I>The House of the Seven Gables</I>. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne¿s classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne''s own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.<br><B>Nathaniel Hawthorne</B> (1804¿64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as <I>The Scarlet Letter</I>. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England¿based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.<br><B>Alex Katz</B