Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Books

Listen to one of the all-time great works of American literature: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This newly published edition from LoudLit.org is professionally narrated by Mary Woods and available unabridged on MP3 download.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is now considered to be one the first great American fiction writers. Though he's known primarily as the author of long form classics such as the The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne was also a prolific short story writer.

For anyone with an abiding interest in classic literature, we present this series of concise summaries of some of the most time-worn classics.

The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is set in Puritan New England in the 17th century. Exploring the issues of grace, legalism, and guilt, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman who commits adultry then struggles to create a new life.

A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast.

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.

This collection includes The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.

Listen to Nathaniel Hawthorne's haunting novel The House of the Seven Gables. The novel features the Pyncheon family and their gloomy New England mansion.

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his 5year-old son Julian stayed behind....

The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation.