Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 26 original MP3 tracks, 9:53:30 running time and a link to listen.

Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret, credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't published until after his death by his son Julian. Summary by Michele Eaton
Recording facts
- Recording title: Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret
- Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 26
- Listed recording duration: 9:53:30
Catalogue topics
- ghost
- spiders
- hawthorne
- Gothic romance
- mad scientist
Opening tracks: first 24 of 26
- 00 - Preface — 15:36
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 23:06
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 23:51
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 13:53
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 24:05
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 17:13
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 17:35
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 20:58
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 18:42
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 23:31
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 22:19
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 16:12
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 22:12
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 20:39
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 26:34
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 34:36
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 22:24
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 26:51
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 32:10
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 33:48
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 40:04
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 17:28
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 17:48
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 29:36
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