Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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06/21/23

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802m

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Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: history

In Our Old Home, Nathaniel Hawthorne turns a diplomat's posting into a quietly sharp-eyed journey through the landscapes, streets, and social rituals of mid-19th-century England. Writing as an American abroad, Hawthorne wanders from foggy port cities to country lanes and ancient manor grounds, lingering over everyday scenes that reveal a nation shaped by tradition, class, and history. He observes public ceremonies and private manners with a mix of curiosity, restraint, and occasional impatience, weighing the comfort of inherited culture against the stifling pull of convention. Along the way, he revisits places and stories that have long haunted the American imagination, testing romantic expectations against what he actually finds: weathered stone, bustling commerce, guarded courtesies, and the persistent presence of the past. Part travelogue, part cultural portrait, and part personal reflection, these sketches explore what it means to call a place home when your roots and your ideals belong to a newer world. The central tension is Hawthorne's own: admiration and skepticism, nostalgia and distance, as he tries to understand the old country without surrendering his American self.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:15) Chapter 02

(01:02:06) Chapter 03

(01:25:39) Chapter 04

(01:47:05) Chapter 05

(02:19:16) Chapter 06

(02:48:12) Chapter 07

(03:14:13) Chapter 08

(03:47:36) Chapter 09

(04:23:48) Chapter 10

(05:06:54) Chapter 11

(05:41:34) Chapter 12

(06:09:19) Chapter 13

(06:35:57) Chapter 14

(07:08:15) Chapter 15

(07:56:47) Chapter 16

(08:32:03) Chapter 17

(09:08:17) Chapter 18

(09:42:18) Chapter 19

(10:28:42) Chapter 20

(11:06:48) Chapter 21

(11:45:38) Chapter 22

(12:08:44) Chapter 23

(12:32:08) Chapter 24

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In Colonial Days by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

June 21, 2023

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121m

In Colonial Days by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: folklore

In Colonial Days gathers four linked tales that turn Boston's Old Province House into a doorway to New England's haunted past. A modern-day visitor, drawn off bustling Washington Street into the inn that once housed royal governors, listens as the building's creaking halls and fading portraits seem to summon earlier occupants: British officers and loyalist grandees, wary townspeople, and solitary figures whose private choices collide with public judgment. In 'Howe's Masquerade,' the gaiety of a grand ball strains against the unease of a city on the brink. 'Edward Randolph's Portrait' lingers on the power a face in a frame can hold over those who fear scrutiny and remember old wrongs. 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle' follows a proud noblewoman whose glittering arrival tests the boundaries between rank, charity, and responsibility. And 'Old Esther Dudley' centers on a woman clinging to vanished authority as history moves on without her. With Hawthorne's signature blend of moral inquiry and spectral atmosphere, these stories explore memory, guilt, status, and the uneasy inheritance of colonial rule.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:30:51) Chapter 02

(00:57:43) Chapter 03

(01:30:43) Chapter 04

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Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

June 22, 2023

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76m

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In a shadowed corner of old Padua, a young scholar named Giovanni Guasconti arrives to continue his studies and finds himself drawn to a mysterious garden unlike any he has ever seen. Tended by the brilliant and secretive Dr. Rappaccini, the walled enclosure blooms with vivid, almost unnatural beauty - and an undercurrent of danger that seems to cling to every leaf and petal. From his window, Giovanni glimpses Beatrice, Rappaccini's secluded daughter, moving among the plants with an eerie grace, as if she belongs to the garden as much as it belongs to her. As Giovanni's fascination turns to love, he is pulled into a tense struggle between devotion and suspicion, innocence and experience, and the competing ambitions of men who claim to act in the name of science and mercy. With its intoxicating atmosphere and moral unease, Hawthorne's tale explores obsession, the costs of tampering with nature, and the tragic consequences of trying to possess or purify what we do not fully understand.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:20) Chapter 2

(00:55:21) Chapter 3

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