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Listening to great writing is a pleasure unto itself. Sometimes the opening paragraph of a work, or even the first sentence, makes it obvious that you are in the hands of a master, and once venturing a few furtive steps onto the path of prose, no matter what forest it enters, valley it descends, or mountain it scales, you will walk the entire distance.

Hawthorne es conocido sobre todo por sus relatos breves, muchas veces de contenido siniestro, al gusto de la época, y por sus cuatros novelas largas. La letra escarlata, La casa de los siete tejados, La novela de Blithedale y El fauno de mármol.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

Nathaniel Hawthorne fue un novelista y cuentista estadounidense considerado figura clave en el desarrollo de la literatura norteamericana.

More classic ghost stories from the golden age of spookiness. Eight stories by eight great writers, curated for your hair-raising pleasure. Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Company weave marvelous spells that whisk you into times and places you never thought you'd experience. Frightful and delightful.

Auf diesem Hörbuch finden sich zwei Erzählungen des Romantikers der Dunkelheit Nathaniel Hawthorne. In "Der große Karfunkel“ begeben sich sieben Abenteurer auf die Suche nach einem sagenumwobenen Edelstein und müssen dabei erfahren, dass das Lüften von Geheimnissen für jeden Einzelnen mit schicksalsträchtigen Konsequenzen verbunden ist. Die "Totenhochzeit" beweist, dass eine Ehe zum falschen Zeitpunkt zur Hölle auf Erden führen kann und im schlimmsten aller Fälle noch mit der Verdammnis der Ewigkeit versüßt wird.

Auf diesem Hörbuch finden sich drei Erzählungen des Romantikers der Dunkelheit Nathaniel Hawthorne. In "Das hölzerne Bildnis" erschafft ein Holzschnitzer das Werk seines Lebens, dass Laien wie Profis in Aufregung versetzt, doch auch Genies haben Geheimnisse. "David Swan" zeigt eindrucksvoll auf, dass unzählige Schicksalsstränge mit jeder Handlung und Nicht-Handlung verknüpft sind, so dass zu jedem Zeitpunkt sich das Geschick eines jeden in unzählige Zukunftsvarianten verändern kann. "Die Höhle der drei Hügel" rät davon ab mit den Toten in Kontakt zu treten, denn wer weiß was passiert, wenn diese antworten.

Midnight Shadows features two classics of horror and the supernatural. "Young Goodman Brown" is the chilling story of a young Puritan man who finds himself drawn into a world of witchcraft and unspeakable black magic. "The Ash Tree" is the tale of Sir Richard, who encounters an ancient tree that harbors a dark and grotesque secret.

Few horror stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. This collection of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, carry you to all corners of the world where terrors lurk. Featuring work by H.P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe and Vernon Lee, experience the skin-crawling undead, a pestilence that leaves no one unaffected, imagined horrors that emerge from disturbed minds and others that require no imagination at all....

A man promises to bury his dying friend, but fails to keep his promise. A strange revenge.

A good story about an actor who commits murder and then tries to convince the police that he's insane

The Christmas Banquet mentioned in the title is an annual feast, funded by an old misanthrope, in which the 10 most miserable people who can be found are gathered together for the holiday. Each year the guests chosen are different, but Gervaise Hastings, a man unafflicted by any obvious misfortune, is included year after year.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, a tale of unspeakable devilry - of blatant, bacchanalian Satanism - that probes and prods the soul of America, whispering, "What is truth?" through the demonic cacophony of a Witch's Sabbath.

The Blithedale Romance (1852) by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark romantic novel set in the farming commune of Blithedale where some utopian city slickers have gathered in order to improve the world. The narrator, Miles Coverdale, gets acquainted with the reformer Hollingsworth, the feminist Zenobia, her sister Priscilla, her father Old Moodie, and Professor Westervelt. They pursue their individual egotistical paths and get entangled in their conflicting ambitions.

The narrative of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown unfolds like a horror film, as the pious protagonist goes to an appointment in the woods near the town of Salem. The author’s use of tongue-in-cheek humor serves to intensify the ultimate horror of the story. One by one, a series of revelations shakes Brown to the core.

In a sleepy, little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation - or its downfall.

"To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune." These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables - that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds. The sins of the Pyncheon father are visited upon his children over a period of several generations, until such time as one of his descendants unites with a member of the family he has wronged. Love conquers hate, and new blood washes away the original crime.

Scorned by her 17th century New England Puritan village, Hester Prynne struggles to raise her precocious daughter, Pearl, who is the result of an affair and whose father is unknown. Despite being forced to wear a scarlet letter A as a brand for her adultery, Hester tries to live a life of repentance and dignity. Pearl's father comes forward as he is struggling under the weight of his own shame and sin.

Pegasus, The Winged Horse is Nathaniel Hawthorne's retelling of the Greek myth of Pegasus and Bellerophon, who wanted to fly with Pegasus to Olympus, the home of the gods. Bellerophon fell back to earth, but the winged horse reached Olympus. Pegasus was then appointed as a transporter of thunderbolts for Zeus.