Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



"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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



"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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Various



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…

The Blithedale Romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Various



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…

The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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

True Stories from History and Biography

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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 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.

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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Various



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Various



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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Various



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…

International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

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Variousandwilliam Patten



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

Short Story Collection Vol. 077

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Various



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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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



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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Various



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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Various



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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Various



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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H. G. Wells



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…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01

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Various



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. 040

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Various



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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Various



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.

Short Story Collection Vol. 048

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P. G. Wodehouse



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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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Various



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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Various



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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Various



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…

CBC Mystery Theatre


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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…

Short Story Collection Vol. 027

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Various



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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Various



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

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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Various



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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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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…

Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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

Short Story Collection Vol. 106

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Various



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

In Colonial Days

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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

Local Color Collection Vol. 001

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Various



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.

The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



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

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 …

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…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 071

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Various



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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Various



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…

Children's Book of Patriotic Stories

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Helen M. Winslow and Asa Don Dickinson



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

Short Story Collection Vol. 107

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Various



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