A review by whatshereadyesterday
The House of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.0

Leave it to a reader like me to love a book not well received by others. The House of the Seven Gables is truly a fable as to how a person, or many persons, live or exist or psychologically or physiologically die with the past. Hawthorne has split himself up among the main four characters and for me, knowing my literary history, is always the best writing that shows a writer's relationship with themselves. It really is a fable about living with or without the past, how to exist alongside something ugly or morally ambivalent and chapter 28 is truly TRULY a masterpiece of the Gothic.