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Classic Audiobook Collection - Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]
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Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

Classic Audiobook Collection

09/26/22

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Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: folklore

In Twice-Told Tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne gathers a landmark collection of short fiction that helped define American romanticism and the darkly luminous literature of New England. Moving between village streets, lonely forests, and haunted corners of history, these stories blend everyday detail with the uncanny, revealing how pride, guilt, ambition, and hidden desire can shape a life. Hawthorne returns again and again to communities where public reputation matters, where old grievances linger, and where a single private choice can echo for years. Across sketches, legends, and moral fables, he introduces figures such as the restless dreamer, the burdened minister, the suspicious neighbor, and the ordinary person confronted by a symbol that will not let go. Some tales draw on the Puritan past, others on contemporary scenes, but all share Hawthorne's signature atmosphere: quiet dread, compassionate irony, and a fascination with the line between sin and self-deception. Rich in imagery and suspense yet rooted in human psychology, Twice-Told Tales invites listeners into a world where history feels alive and every shadow hints at a deeper truth.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:13) Chapter 02

(00:39:19) Chapter 03

(01:02:41) Chapter 04

(01:39:11) Chapter 05

(02:05:27) Chapter 06

(02:53:17) Chapter 07

(03:32:10) Chapter 08

(04:01:46) Chapter 09

(04:22:33) Chapter 10

(04:46:56) Chapter 11

(05:04:18) Chapter 12

(05:39:22) Chapter 13

(06:15:41) Chapter 14

(06:31:09) Chapter 15

(06:48:19) Chapter 16

(07:01:12) Chapter 17

(07:17:00) Chapter 18

(07:31:50) Chapter 19

(07:47:36) Chapter 20

(08:13:34) Chapter 21

(08:49:10) Chapter 22

(09:19:31) Chapter 23

(09:59:44) Chapter 24

(10:29:30) Chapter 25

(10:42:03) Chapter 26

(11:13:57) Chapter 27

(11:34:29) Chapter 28

(11:53:06) Chapter 29

(12:06:55) Chapter 30

(12:50:24) Chapter 31

(13:18:02) Chapter 32

(14:11:04) Chapter 33

(14:36:29) Chapter 34

(14:51:28) Chapter 35

(15:08:17) Chapter 36

(15:26:50) Chapter 37

(15:45:28) Chapter 38

(16:14:31) Chapter 39

(16:34:35) Chapter 40

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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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The Cloak by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In wintry St Petersburg, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin is a meek, middle-aged civil servant whose life is reduced to copying documents in silence and being mocked by his colleagues. Threadbare and nearly invisible, he endures the citys cold and the offices casual cruelty with the same dull patience that has shaped him for years. When his old coat finally becomes impossible to patch, Akaky is forced into a choice that feels enormous for someone with almost nothing: save painstakingly for a new cloak, or continue to disappear into the freezing streets. The purchase of that single garment begins to change how others see him - and how he sees himself - awakening hopes of comfort, respect, and belonging he has never dared to claim. But in a city ruled by rank, indifference, and arbitrary power, a small dream can become dangerously fragile. With sharp satire and deep compassion, Gogol follows Akaky through the offices, alleys, and stairwells of imperial Russia, revealing how a society can grind down a human soul while insisting it is only following procedure.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:38:33) Chapter 02

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