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An Old Woman's Tale
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In the book the narrator relates a story that had been told to him previously by a witch-like old woman, who, professing to ” hold the substance” of the “account from one of those principally concerned in it,” asserted that all the inhabitants of a town in the Connecticut River valley simultaneously fell into a slumber at certain intervals of either twenty-five, fifty, or one hundred years.
In the book the narrator relates a story that had been told to him previously by a witch-like old woman, who, professing to ” hold the substance” of the “account from one of those principally concerned in it,” asserted that all the inhabitants of a town in the Connecticut River valley simultaneously fell into a slumber at certain intervals of either twenty-five, fifty, or one hundred years.
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I don't know where to start this review, because I'm speechless. Spell-binding... totally left me hanging in the end. Somehow, Mr. Hawthorne has crafted a story within a story within a story... and there's still a first-person narrator adding a 4th tier!
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