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Title: The House of the Seven Gables by Mary Oliver, Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0-375-75687-6 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.47 (47 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a cheerful book, but beautifully written
Comment: At first I felt the characters were too gloomy for my taste and it took some effort to keep reading. Hawthorne's writing style kept me going because it is so clearly descriptive that I felt I was experiencing the story (creepy as it was at times). When the young relative was introduced into the story, it gained momentum and I was hooked. I can see where the story would hold little interest for teenagers and is better suited for more mature readers, but I certainly can see why this book has been around for 150 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dark and Mysterious Classic
Comment: This book is really good. Very deep mystery about a dying witch's curse. It's not a fast-moving thriller, by a slow and methodical one. Every word is chosen so carefully by Hawthorne, that it is fun to read and a challenge for the mind to find the hidden meaning. The novel starts with a discription of the house- the house with human attributes and ends with a lone cat watching the fulfillment of a witch's curse. Really excellent. There's plenty of characterization, hints of incest, and omenious surrounding to keep the reader entertained. Love love loved it, read it in a college American literature class.
Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable but not spectacular
Comment: Though there were definitely times when this book was slow or difficult to understand, Hawthorne's writing, through the use of metaphors, allusions and other rhetorical devices is a wonderful accomplishment. It was hard for me to get into the book at the beginning and especially through the long discussion of the Pyncheon family but it payed off to know this information when the climax arose. Overall, I enjoyed reading this book, but was not totally impressed by the story, reguardless of the universal themes that apply to us today.
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Title: The House of the Seven Gables (Cliffs Notes) by Darlene Bennett Morris ISBN: 0822005956 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 14 October, 1964 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ISBN: 0553212184 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Blithedale Romance by John Updike, Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0375757201 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Moby-Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE ISBN: 0553213113 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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