Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (version 2)


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This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

The Scarlet Letter


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The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 017


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…

The House of the Seven Gables


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"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …

Twice Told Tales


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Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the s…

Tanglewood Tales


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All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection featur…

Cuentos de terror


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Los auténticos cuentos de terror cuentan con algo más que un misterioso asesino, unos huesos ensangrentados o unos espectros a…

Die Totenhochzeit


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Vier Erzählungen von einem Meister unheimlicher Literatur. Zusammen mit Hermann Melville und Edgar Allan Poe zählt Hawthorne zur '…

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys


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A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: …

Mosses From An Old Manse


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"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…

Ghost Story Collection 005


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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

Antología de Cuentos Fantásticos


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El cuento fantástico es la narración de la realidad que mezcla elementos reales e irreales, extraños e inexplicables, c…

The Blithedale Romance


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The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a commu…

Short Story Collection Vol. 006


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LibriVox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox member…

Die Blumen des Bösen



Der Student Giovanni Guasconti hat von seiner Unterkunft aus Einblick in den wundersamen privaten Garten des berühmten Gelehrten Rappac…

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)


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The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft…

Short Story Collection Vol. 004


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

True Stories from History and Biography


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In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 022


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A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers u…

The Marble Faun


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The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …

Short Story Collection Vol. 002


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Rappaccini's Daughter


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The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains


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A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains. Consists of: The G…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Story Collection Vol. 053


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A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Bla…

Späte Erzählungen



Eine Sammlung später Erzählungen aus Meyrinks letzter Schaffensperiode ab 1923.

International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories


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The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Gre…

Cuentos Clásicos del Norte: Segunda Serie


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(Segunda parte de esta serie de Cuentos Clásicos de América del Norte, esta vez con la presencia de tres de los más des…

Short Story Collection Vol. 077


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A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

Short Story Collection Vol. 057


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.A …

Short Story Collection Vol. 016


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Librivox’s Short Story Collection 016: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Short Story Collection Vol. 051


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01


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The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors…

Short Story Collection Vol. 040


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Short Story Collection Vol. 020


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 020: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01


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This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …

Short Story Collection Vol. 048


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 048: a collection of 19 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Our Old Home


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These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Story Collection Vol. 078


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A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

Short Story Collection Vol. 084


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And so we present the 84th Librivox Short Story Collection! Each tale is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. Once again, we have a wi…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 036


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Story Collection Vol. 027


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 027: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 03


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This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

CBC Mystery Theatre



CBC Mystery Theatre The Mystery Theater was a radio series that was written, adapted, produced and broadcast by the CBC from 1966 to 1968. C…

The Ontario Readers: Third Book


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The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06


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You get to choose what you want to read! (All recordings in English]) So long as the source is Public Domain for you, any short story or cha…

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)


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THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

First Chapter Collection 001


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"Are you wishing sometimes that you had a good book which you don't know, that you might just read and enjoy? The goal of this collecti…

La letra escarlata


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Con un interesante prólogo, Hawthorne acerca al lector a conocer el ambiente, lugar y tiempo en que se basa la historia narrada en su…

Die Blumen des Bösen


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Der Student Giovanni Guasconti hat von seiner Unterkunft aus Einblick in den wundersamen privaten Garten des berühmten Gelehrten Rappac…

Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret


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Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

El invitado ambicioso


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Este suceso se inició al caer la tarde de un día de septiembre. En aquel momento se hallaba la familia congregada alrededor de…

In Colonial Days


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A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…

Short Story Collection Vol. 106


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This collection is for any short story in the English Language in the public domain, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. This collecti…

Local Color Collection Vol. 001


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In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)

Short Poetry Collection 027


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 027: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

La Comble des trois collines



Au Fil des Lectures. Nouvelle fantastique de Nathaniel Hawthorne lue par Éric (14min). « À cette époque ét…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085


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"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces


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This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…

De scharlaken letter


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Het werk is een tafereel van het booze in den mensch. Er treden weinig personen in op, maar toch is er handeling genoeg. De hoofdpersoon is …

Biografías breves


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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) Novelista estadounidense. Nació el 4 de julio de 1804, en Salem (Massachussets). Nacido en el …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 071


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Children's Book of Patriotic Stories


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Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, to stand beside the similar collections of Christmas Stories and Thanksgiving Stories, whi…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 074


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18


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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

First Chapter Collection 004


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LibriVox First Chapter Collection 004 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, chosen by LibriVox volunteers.This volume …

Short Story Collection Vol. 107


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We are back with another diverse short story collection. All stories were selected and read by Librivox readers. This collection includes wo…

First Chapter Collection 011


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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…