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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.0

Too long and wordy. The ending felt like a deus ex machina way of tying all the loose threads together, and I don’t understand why Hawthorne couldn’t have used the fifteen or so pages describing Hepzibah getting dressed to, you know, write a complete plot. However, some of the writing was clever, if overdramatic. Very clear imagery (because of all that unnecessary description!).