Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition.By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Length43h 10m
About this audiobook
This substantial collection gathers the major short fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne, including Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Snow-Image, and related stories, revealing the full range of his moral imagination. Hawthorne's tales combine allegory, romance, psychological inquiry, and Puritan historical memory, often setting private guilt against public judgment. In stories such as "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil," and "Rappaccini's Daughter," his lucid, symbol-laden prose helped define nineteenth-century American fiction between Gothic inheritance and modern psychological realism. Hawthorne, born in Salem, Massachusetts, was deeply marked by New England's Puritan past and by his own family's association with the Salem witch trials. His fiction repeatedly returns to ancestral guilt, secrecy, sin, and the ambiguous workings of conscience. Years of relative seclusion, work in the Salem Custom House, and residence at the Old Manse in Concord brought him into contact with Transcendentalist circles while sharpening his skepticism toward easy moral or utopian certainties. This volume is ideal for readers seeking the foundations of American short fiction in their richest form. Scholars, students, and general readers alike will find in Hawthorne a master of compression, atmosphere, and ethical complexity. The collection rewards slow reading, inviting reflection on innocence, temptation, self-deception, and the shadows cast by history.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length43 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 20, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Author Biography
4Historical Context
5Synopsis (Selection)
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6Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 1)
7Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 2)
8Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 3)
9Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 4)
10Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 5)
11Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 6)
12Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 7)
13Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 8)
14Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 9)
15Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 10)
16Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 11)
17Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 12)
18Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 13)
19Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 14)
20Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 15)
21Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 16)
22Collected Short Stories: More than 70 Short Stories in one volume: Twice-Told Tales + Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories + The Snow Image and other stories (pt. 17)
23Analysis
24Reflection
25Memorable Quotes
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