Nathaniel Hawthorne and his "The House of the Seven Gables" Nathaniel Hawthorne's life 1804 - 1864 <Tab/>Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the July 4th, 1804 in Salem, a puritan town, where his family had lived for generations. His father died only four years afterwards. From the shock of his death Mrs. Hawthorne (as the name was originally spelled, the "W" was inserted by young Nathaniel) never recovered. To the end of her life …
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…he changes many of his opinions, he is no longer a liberal as he was. <Tab/>I would say that such an ending is satisfactory for a quick reader, who returns the book to the library after he finishes it. But when one starts to think about it, it could be rather a sad ending. I have to, as every reader of this romance, find some possible ending of my own.