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Classic / American English (Available February 2008) The House of the Seven Gables is the home of an important family: the Pyncheons. They have the house and a lot of land, but no money and many problems. Is there a curse on the family? This is a story about money, murder, and love.
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I must say that the negative reviews that I have read about Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables are sorely off the mark. The prevalent sentiments are that the plot is dull (or almost absent), the characters are flat, and the description is overwrought. But you who say this are simply missing the point, as well as taking Hawthorne's work out of context. You have to understand that this novel was written during a very transitional period in literature. Writers had shifted from the Enlightenment to Romanticism (the period in which Hawthorne writes), and as Hawthorne writes his novels, another movement is being made to Realism. Realism is what we are used to in modern fiction. It contains real characters and real events. But Hawthorne had not yet fully employed these new ideas, and he still hung on to the Romantic sentiments. Therefore, he was much more interested in ideas rather than character development (a modern technique). Hawthorne chooses to convey ideas, emotions, morals, etc. rather than fully developed the characters like they would be in a novel today.
As for no plot, you have to keep in mind that Hawthorne still looks to the old tradition (not to mention his guilt of his heritage), so he uses his writing as a way to teach moral lessons, not necessarily to describe a highly detailed story and plot.
Finally, I can't deny that there is plenty of narrative description, but most of it serves a great purpose, and for the parts that you think do not belong, just read and enjoy them for their poetic beauty and technical merit.
Hawthorne is a fantastic writer, but to acknowledge this, the reader must not take his work out of its context.
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150 years ago, on the site of the house of the old Pyncheon family in Providence, New England, lived one Mathew Maule in a log-built hut who was executed for the crime of witchcraft. Before dying, Maule uttered a prophecy to Colonel Pyncheon: "God will give him blood to drink."
Villagers could not understand that Pyncheon wanted to build his house over the unquiet grave of the dead wizard Maule and why he should prefer this site that had already been accursed in all the vastness of New England. At any rate the house was built in the grotesqueness of Gothic fancy with seven gables pointing sharply to the sky. On the day of the ceremony of consecration of the house, Colonel Pyncheon suddenly died and some said that Maule's prophecy could be heard throughout the house spoken in a loud voice...
From father to son, the family clung to the ancestral house with tenacity. Bu Mathew Maule's prophecy seems to have planted a heavy footstep on the conscience of the Pyncheons as though they committed again the guilt of their ancestor thus inheriting a great misfortune.
An impressive novel in which an old house itself is the major character. The story is filled with contrasts and oppositions between the dark and gloomy interior of the house and the bright and sunlit exterior. Shadow is the atmosphere of the invisible world of evil, of the past hidden in the recesses of the old mansion. As one follows the lives of Hepzibah, Phoebe and Clifford, one realises that the human fates of the present times are closely linked to the web of the past.
Villagers could not understand that Pyncheon wanted to build his house over the unquiet grave of the dead wizard Maule and why he should prefer this site that had already been accursed in all the vastness of New England. At any rate the house was built in the grotesqueness of Gothic fancy with seven gables pointing sharply to the sky. On the day of the ceremony of consecration of the house, Colonel Pyncheon suddenly died and some said that Maule's prophecy could be heard throughout the house spoken in a loud voice...
From father to son, the family clung to the ancestral house with tenacity. Bu Mathew Maule's prophecy seems to have planted a heavy footstep on the conscience of the Pyncheons as though they committed again the guilt of their ancestor thus inheriting a great misfortune.
An impressive novel in which an old house itself is the major character. The story is filled with contrasts and oppositions between the dark and gloomy interior of the house and the bright and sunlit exterior. Shadow is the atmosphere of the invisible world of evil, of the past hidden in the recesses of the old mansion. As one follows the lives of Hepzibah, Phoebe and Clifford, one realises that the human fates of the present times are closely linked to the web of the past.
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If you want a fast paced action thriller, then rent a movie. This book has depth and meaning that only the "true" classics have. If you're into thinking for yourself and seeing a wonderful story unfold in your mind then this book is for you. And by the way, this can be understood by teenagers- I was 19 when I read it. I think the awful reviews are written by people with a lack of character, or perhaps maturity.
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Eloquent Reading of Hawthorne's Classic Reflections on the Book of...
"'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
What profit has a man from all his labor
In which he toils under the sun? Lesen Sie weiter...
What profit has a man from all his labor
In which he toils under the sun? Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Donald Mitchell veröffentlicht
Outdated despite its constant pleads for innovation
Reading this novel, it is somewhat funny to call to one's mind how the roots of Puritanism turned into the other extreme during the last centuries, how US-American culture became a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 13 Monaten von Skywalker veröffentlicht
Very Mixed Feelings
I am currently reading this book. It is the legend of the House of the Seven Gables that makes the novel interesting - the curse the House bears and those troubled characters... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. April 2000 von Damion Stene
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens
In my opinion, this is Hawthorne's masterpiece. Generally speaking, I do not like to compare Hawthorne and Dickens. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. April 2000 von Sean Ares Hirsch
Read this book!
Im 17 years old and I enjoyed Hawethorne's classic tale, House of the Seven Gables. I read many of his works and he is my most "intimate" author; using him as the subject... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Dezember 1999 von sweet_thang2ooo@excite.com
It was a little difficult to understand.
I'm 15 years old and I read this book as an independent study for English. It was a little difficult to get into this book because Nathanial Hawthorne is a very descriptive... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
This book has its faults, but it is very readable.
This book had a pretty good plot. The only thing that I didn't like about it was that it seemed so incredibly negative and depressing. I tend to not like depressing books. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. September 1999 veröffentlicht
wonderful.
i really enjoyed this book. i do not understand why people can not get into this book and enjoy it. "oh it's not for teenagers blah blah". Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. August 1999 veröffentlicht
To earlier reviews..
I haven't read this book, but I think I will. I love boring, overly descriptive, slow moving, short on plot books. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Haunting
Hawthorne was often a spotty writer. At his best he was sublime ("Young Goodman Brown"), and at his worst he was ridiculous ("The Bosom Serpent"). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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