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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
09/26/22
•735m
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
Genre: drama
'The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.' Hawthorne's moral for 'The House of the Seven Gables,' taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.
Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.
One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.
The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:18:26) Chapter 01
(01:17:52) Chapter 02
(01:46:55) Chapter 03
(02:18:33) Chapter 04
(02:51:48) Chapter 05
(03:27:26) Chapter 06
(03:51:51) Chapter 07
(04:30:37) Chapter 08
(05:10:07) Chapter 09
(05:38:25) Chapter 10
(06:09:18) Chapter 11
(06:41:12) Chapter 12
(07:14:12) Chapter 13
(08:08:43) Chapter 14
(08:35:49) Chapter 15
(09:16:31) Chapter 16
(09:46:22) Chapter 17
(10:21:03) Chapter 18
(11:00:45) Chapter 19
(11:36:55) Chapter 20
(11:57:32) Chapter 21
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This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
September 26, 2022
•250m
This World is Taboo by Murray Leinster audiobook.
Genre: scifi
Calhoun, a field man for the Interstellar Medical Service, expects routine inspections: land, check public health conditions, and leave a world safer than he found it. But when his small Med Ship reaches Weald Three, he finds a prosperous grain planet locked in fear. Nearby Dara, once ravaged by a plague, is under strict quarantine, and its people carry the visible legacy of that sickness - the hated 'blueskins.' On Weald, politicians and security forces treat any contact with Dara as contamination, and paranoia is turning into something far more dangerous. Calhoun, accompanied by his sharp-eyed tormal companion Murgatroyd, quickly realizes that the health problem is inseparable from prejudice, trade, and the threat of interplanetary violence. To do his job, he may have to break the very quarantine everyone insists will keep them safe, and step onto the world that has been declared untouchable. Part medical mystery, part political thriller, Leinster's classic space adventure digs into how fear spreads faster than disease, and how one stubborn professional can challenge a system built on scapegoats.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:32:48) Chapter 02
(01:01:22) Chapter 03
(01:29:28) Chapter 04
(01:59:48) Chapter 05
(02:34:49) Chapter 06
(03:06:45) Chapter 07
(03:37:29) Chapter 08
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Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
September 26, 2022
•1153m
Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.
Genre: romance
'Mosses from an Old Manse' is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. A second edition was published in 1854, which added 'Feathertop,' 'Passages from a Relinquished Work, and 'Sketches from Memory.'
Many of the tales collected in 'Mosses from an Old Manse' are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review 'Hawthorne and His Mosses': 'This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds.' William Henry Channing reviewed the collection in The Harbinger and noted that its author 'had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy' and his work was dark with only brief moments of 'serene brightness' which was never brighter than 'dusky twilight'.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:29:24) Chapter 02
(00:55:49) Chapter 03
(01:18:28) Chapter 04
(02:07:29) Chapter 05
(02:46:45) Chapter 06
(03:26:06) Chapter 07
(04:00:33) Chapter 08
(04:49:10) Chapter 09
(05:10:23) Chapter 10
(05:57:38) Chapter 11
(06:34:59) Chapter 12
(07:30:10) Chapter 13
(08:09:53) Chapter 14
(08:44:03) Chapter 15
(09:40:13) Chapter 16
(10:15:08) Chapter 17
(10:48:32) Chapter 18
(11:10:44) Chapter 19
(11:34:59) Chapter 20
(12:05:51) Chapter 21
(12:37:32) Chapter 22
(13:26:25) Chapter 23
(14:18:55) Chapter 24
(14:55:10) Chapter 25
(15:43:43) Chapter 26
(16:37:40) Chapter 27
(17:15:47) Chapter 28
(17:54:32) Chapter 29
(18:13:11) Chapter 30
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