The House of the Seven Gables

Parece un libro muy interesante, tiene la letra pequeña. En unos meses lo leere cuando me lo digan en la universidad.

It's certainly not for everyone but I think it's great. I need it for study and I enjoyed reading it.

A gift for my auntie, she was very happy with it. A reasonable price, good quality and reasonable postage x

This is a wonderful book and one of my favorites. The evils of greed are a message for our times. I sometimes think of the impoverished Hepzibah asking the elderly, wealthy Judge why he needed more money. Just like politicians and the super wealthy who never seem to have enough while so many suffer.

I became interested in this novel when my wife learned that she is a direct relative of the man who owned the house which inspired Hawthorne to write this book.I was not disappointed with the novel and I quite enjoyed the dark and mysterious tone to it. Perhaps the modern reader won't have the patience to wade through Hawthorne's meandering prose. I admit that this book takes patience but look beyond and you'll recogize the beautiful elements that make it a classic in American literature. In a historical context, his writing is crisp and evocative as he hangs on to the romantic elements in literature. I realized while reading the book that the enjoyment is not to race to the end and see what happens but rather to enjoy the flowery prose and sensorial descriptions. The story is quite simple but involves multiple generations of a family doomed by a suspicious curse flung at them by the disguntled landowner of the plot on which the famous house with the seven gables was built. The "Deus ex machina" ending seems hokey to modern readers but in 19th century literature was virtually expected and highly appreciated. If you're willing to take the time to appreciate this novel, then I recommend it to you.