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Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]
Classic Audiobook Collection
06/22/23
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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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Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [history]
June 21, 2023
•802m
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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The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
June 22, 2023
•535m
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
Genre: romance
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to one on which Hawthorne himself lived in 1841. These communes arose out of the pressures on society and the individual brought by the Industrial Revolution. Some were organized around religious philosophies, some were secular. Among the secularists, the Transcendental movement mentioned in the novel espoused the idea that the individual's intuition, rather than religious dogma, was the true path to spiritual enlightenment. Our four characters, like so many who fled to these communes, struggle to free mankind from bondage as they struggle with the unaccustomed day-to-day tasks of farm life. But they are plagued by a mystery that follows them from the world, and ultimately leads to tragedy.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:05:41) Chapter 01
(00:14:24) Chapter 02
(00:25:27) Chapter 03
(00:44:33) Chapter 04
(01:02:38) Chapter 05
(01:17:41) Chapter 06
(01:39:51) Chapter 07
(01:58:59) Chapter 08
(02:24:42) Chapter 09
(02:52:30) Chapter 10
(03:08:13) Chapter 11
(03:27:23) Chapter 12
(03:43:36) Chapter 13
(04:08:09) Chapter 14
(04:33:07) Chapter 15
(04:51:36) Chapter 16
(05:08:48) Chapter 17
(05:25:51) Chapter 18
(05:40:06) Chapter 19
(05:57:56) Chapter 20
(06:09:16) Chapter 21
(06:25:46) Chapter 22
(06:52:35) Chapter 23
(07:15:16) Chapter 24
(07:34:56) Chapter 25
(07:53:25) Chapter 26
(08:08:33) Chapter 27
(08:26:56) Chapter 28
(08:41:45) Chapter 29
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