Am I remembering this correctly? Nathaniel Hawthorne takes multiple pages to describe tangential information irrelevant or mildly relevant to the main story beat?

I am currently in a discussion with my partner and I am trying to remember if this was the scarlet letter and Hawthorne being the guy who would take 2-3 pages just to describe something about the wallpaper (I'm exaggerating).

Others I was thinking it may be was Wuthering Heights, but I don't believe it to be the case.

I just remember it being some 7th or 8th grade English class that we read one of these classical books where the tangents were insane for the mind of a junior high idiot.