Hawthorne's transplanting and transforming "The Tell-Tale Heart". (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

From: Studies in American Fiction | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: Kopley, Richard | Copyright information

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The House of the Seven Gables' (1851) has been linked to Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839). An examination of Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850) indicates that he may have also borrowed ideas from Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.' The young man who murders another in Poe's tale is transplanted into the character, Dr. Roger Chillingworth in Hawthorne's.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables (1851) has long been...

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