Mosses from an Old Manse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mosses from an Old Manse, 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 Mosses from an Old Manse, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read by Bob Neufeld. "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. A second edition was published in 1854, which added "Feathertop," "Passages from a Relinquished Work, and "Sketches from Memory." Many of the tales collected in "Mosses from an Old Manse" are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing reviewed the collection in The Harbinger and noted that its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy" and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" which was never brighter than "dusky twilight". ( Summary by Wikipedia )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mosses from an Old Manse
• Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 18:59:07

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• short stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - The Old Manse - Part 1 — 29:24
2. 02 - The Old Manse - Part 2 — 26:26
3. 03 - The Old Manse - Part 3 — 22:39
4. 04 - The Birthmark — 49:01
5. 05 - A Select Party — 39:17
6. 06 - Young Goodman Brown — 39:21
7. 07 - Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 1 — 34:27
8. 08 - Rappaccini's Daughter: Part 2 — 48:37
9. 09 - Mrs. Bullfrog — 21:13
10. 10 - The Celestial Railroad — 47:16
11. 11 - The Procession Of Life — 37:22
12. 12 - Feathertop: A Moralized Legend — 55:11
13. 13 - Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent — 39:44
14. 14 - Drowne's Wooden Image — 34:10
15. 15 - Roger Malvin's Burial — 56:11
16. 16 - The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 1 — 34:55
17. 17 - The Artist Of The Beautiful: Part 2 — 33:25
18. 18 - Fire-Worship — 22:12
19. 19 - Buds and Bird-Voices — 24:15
20. 20 - Monsieur du Miroir — 30:52
21. 21 - The Hall of Fantasy — 31:42
22. 22 - The New Adam and Eve — 48:53
23. 23 - The Christmas Banquet — 52:30
24. 24 - The Intelligence Office — 36:15

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