The House of the Seven Gables (AmazonClassics Edition)

De: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrado por: Buck Schirner

A portrait of Colonel Pyncheon looms over his family in the house of the seven gables - an ominous reminder of the curse he left behind over a century ago.

The shadow still falls over the New England mansion's current residents, siblings Clifford and Hepzibah - unless they can expose the one secret that offers an escape from the hex.

Set in seventeenth- and nineteenth-century Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic tale was inspired by the Salem Witch Trials and by a family home that still stands today. With the town's horrific history, the house became, for Hawthorne and his readers, an important metaphor for ancestral burden.

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Revised edition: Previously published as The House of the Seven Gables, this edition of The House of the Seven Gables (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Very talented narrator with ability to do voices.

Hearing this story after reading the book years ago and after the Vincent Price movie was a good experience.

A Classic Ghost Story that keeps your mind active.

I loved hearing the book read, it was like reading it for the first time all over again. My mind was constantly challenged as I tried to remember the outcome. The characters are all so different, each is fascinating, even the hard to love become your favorites. I will keep this on my "bookshelf" to read/listen again.

Not to my taste

I did some very light research and found that this title was published a few years after Wuthering Heights. There seems to be some similarity - romance and a ghost story. I am a big fan of The Scarlet Letter (without the laborious introduction), but THOTSG does not rise to that level of the craft. It is still a good story, so I recommend.

Vivid Characters

Towards the end of the book Hawthorne makes mention of women not saying succinctly what can be said with many words. This was exactly what I would say of the author. His command of the language is beautiful though by today's standards I consider it pedantic. He took so long to say what he meant and did so by such a circuitous route that I found myself losing the thread of the narritave. I cringed many times throughout the book when he mentiond women, Italians and darker skinned people. I know times have changed and I do not want sanitized books but I felt a visceral reaction for anyone marginalized during that timeperiod.

Wordy Drivel

This book is just wordy, pointless drivel. The guy writes one good book, and everyone thinks his others must be just as good. This is NOT the case here. Don't waste your time.