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House of the Seven Gables, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Description: ISBN 0393924769 / Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne / Genre: Classic Literature

Newest Review: ... of goodness, persecution and touches of the supernatural. The plot: The original patriarch of the Pyncheon family gained ... more

 ... owndership of a tract of land by having the owner hung for witchcraft. He then had the dead man's son build him a huge house (the one in the title) the Pyncheon man died just as it was finished, in a slightyl supernatural way that may have had something to do with the hanged man's curse. When the book opens we find the house occupied by elderly spinster Hepzibah and a young artist who is her lodger. A distant relative, a young girl called Phoebe arrives from the country. Hepzibah's brother Clifford is relea...more

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Premium Review House of the Seven Gables, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne: Slow amble through a large hour. (627 words)
by Bryn Pearson - written on 10.06.02 (Very useful, 92 readings)
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To make any sense of "The house of the Seven gables" I think you are going to need some background about the writer and the period of origin. This is an odd book to say the least. Nathaniel Hawthorn is American and was writing in the 19th century. Victorian contemporaries in the UK may have struck you as being ponderous, but this man wanders on an entirely new scale. The time of writing favoured propriety - again a trait you'll encounter with Victorian authors. In Hawthorn, this manifests in a strong desire not to say anything scandalous about his fictional characters. This can make it very hard to unravel his plots, as the sex and violence, where ...

 

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