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Loading... The House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Read in high school in order to do a "research" paper. Had a difficult time getting through it since I didn't find the book all that interesting. (  )theresalee1980 | Jun 24, 2009 |   Hawthorne is the equivalent of nudging someone and winking without actually thinking of anything interesting, risque, beautiful, or even useful. It is sad that a man with such a voluminous writing ability was seemingly devoid of any notion of what to do with it. (  )Terpsichoreus | Jun 9, 2009 | I only recently discoverd this book after a tour of the House of the Seven Gables in Salem. This is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. The character development and the mixture of realism and fantasy really drew me in in way few books have. (  )Watson1 | May 16, 2009 | a classic -- must read!!! A++++ ( )liisa22 | May 6, 2009 | "This contrast, or intermingling of tragedy with mirth, happens daily, hourly, momently. This gloomy and desolate old house, deserted of life, and with awful Death sitting sternly in its solitude, was the emblem of many a human heart, which, nevertheless, is compelled to hear the thrill and echo of the world's gaiety around it." The incredible detail of The House of Seven Gables left me feeling extreme pity one moment and laughing out loud to myself the next. This was just about everything I could ask for in a novel - a curse that spans generations, a haunted house and a wealth of description. A great read. (  )HannahElizabeth13 | Mar 3, 2009 | 0.014 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553212702, Mass Market Paperback)In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall.Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.” (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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