The Scarlet Letter (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Scarlet Letter (version 2), 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 The Scarlet Letter (version 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read in English by Cori Samuel. 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 New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her adultery. She refuses to name her lover, and he too keeps his silence, but with a terrible cost. The tale is prefaced with an account of the Salem Custom-house where Nathaniel Hawthorne was working when he began writing The Scarlet Letter. Summary by Cori Samuel.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Scarlet Letter (version 2)
• Author credits: Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 9:25:01

Catalogue topics

• Massachusetts
• love
• sin
• adultery
• Puritans
• Boston
• salem

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00a - The Custom-House—Introductory to 'The Scarlet Letter' — 23:19
2. 00b - The Custom-House—Continued — 30:47
3. 00c - The Custom-House—Concluded — 47:46
4. 04 - 01 - The Prison-door — 3:29
5. 02 - The Market-Place — 23:09
6. 03 - The Recognition — 21:24
7. 04 - The Interview — 16:04
8. 05 - Hester at Her Needle — 23:30
9. 06 - Pearl — 24:21
10. 07 - The Governor's Hall — 16:15
11. 08 - The Elf-Child and the Minister — 20:39
12. 09 - The Leech — 23:41
13. 10 - The Leech and His Patient — 23:05
14. 11 - The Interior of a Heart — 17:45
15. 12 - The Minister's Vigil — 25:31
16. 13 - Another View of Hester — 19:33
17. 14 - Hester and the Physician — 14:56
18. 15 - Hester and Pearl — 15:00
19. 16 - A Forest Walk — 13:59
20. 17 - The Pastor and His Parishioner — 23:16
21. 18 - A Flood of Sunshine — 15:08
22. 19 - The Child at the Brook-side — 16:47
23. 20 - The Minister in a Maze — 25:30
24. 21 - The New England Holiday — 20:27

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