Nathaniel Hawthorne

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rappaccini's Daughter is a single-story audiobook of classic American Gothic fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, narrated by an AI voice in English. In a secluded garden, a young man becomes captivated by a mysterious young woman and the strange world...

Set in the rigid world of Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a haunting exploration of sin, identity, and the consequences of silence. Hester Prynne is an outcast. Forced to wear the scarlet "A" for adultery, she refuses to name her child's father.

The relentless curse on the Pynchon family of Salem, Massachusetts, which has inhabited the House of the Seven Gables for generations, is resurrected two centuries later by their descendants - with surprising results....

A tale of betrayal, revenge, loyalty, and redemption, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a true classic. Hester Prynne settles in a little town in Puritan-era Massachusetts while awaiting her husband’s arrival from England. Hester becomes pregnant, exposing her sin in the eyes of the...

One of the most important novels in classic literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter tackles the subject of adultery, with the notorious Hester Prynne at the forefront of the scandal in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the beginning of the novel, Hester is serving time in prison for...

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more....

"To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune." These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables - that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds....

Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and...

The Scarlet Letter – published first in 1850, was in its time considered as an innovative and at the same time scandalous novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was strongly disapproved by the fellow countrymen of the author and banned by the Russian tsars. The Scarlet Letter tells...

These tales of Greek Mythology are described with Hawthorne's inimitable style.

How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you?

As she emerges from the prison of a Puritan New England town, Hester Prynne defies the dark gloom. With her illegitimate baby clutched in her arms and the letter A embroidered in scarlet thread on her breast, Hester holds her head high as she faces the malice and scorn of the townsfolk....

"Young Goodman Brown", "Feathertop: A Moralized Legend", "An Old Woman's Tale", "Graves and Goblins", "The Appeal of Alice Doane", and "The Ghost of Dr. Harris" are ghostly pleasures that are full of tricks and treats....

The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.

Nathaniel Hawthorne masterfully grabs the imagination of children with these timeless tales of adventure based on the incomparable Greek mythological heroes' escapades....

The Marble Faun of 1860 was the last of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four major romances. Set in Italy, the narrative blends elements of the travel guide, fable, and gothic novel....

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered to be one of the greatest examples of true American literature....

In this volume such literary leviathans as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others provide tales from pens that seep with wisdom and worry.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner.

One evening, against the wishes of his frightened wife, young puritan Goodman Brown embarks on a mysterious errand that leads him through the skeletal woods....