author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804–1864
Best known for The Scarlet Letter, this American master of dark, symbolic fiction turned guilt, secrecy, and moral conflict into unforgettable stories. His novels and tales still shape how readers imagine Puritan New England and the shadows of the human conscience.
102 Audiobooks
The snow-image, and other twice-told tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sister Years (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chippings with a Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Bell's Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sylph Etherege (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Select Party
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Snow Flakes (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) Outlines of an English Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sketches and Studies
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lily's Quest (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stories of Intellect
by Rebecca Harding Davis, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Main Street (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 2
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Man of Adamant (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Wives of the Dead (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Seven Vagabonds (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time's Portraiture (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mosses from an old manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Miraculous Pitcher (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Rill from the Town Pump
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Threefold Destiny (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sketches from Memory (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice-told tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
True Stories of History and Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Three Golden Apples (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Bullivant (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Gorgon's Head (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanshawe
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Vision of the Fountain (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Daffydowndilly (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The snow-image: a childish miracle
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
La letra escarlata novela escrita en inglés
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Paradise of Children (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tri Noveloj
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Segunda Serie
by Washington Irving, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Dolliver Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cuando la tierra era niña
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts
by James Edgar Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sunday at Home (From "Twice Told Tales")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In colonial days
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Book of Autographs
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
About the author
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne became one of the central figures in 19th-century American literature. He wrote novels and short stories that often explored sin, guilt, pride, and the weight of the past, drawing on New England history and his own family’s Puritan roots.
After early years of quiet, determined writing, he gained lasting fame with The Scarlet Letter in 1850. He followed it with major works including The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, building a reputation for fiction that mixed psychological depth with symbolism and a haunting, almost dreamlike atmosphere.
Hawthorne was also connected to many of the leading writers and thinkers of his time, and his marriage to Sophia Peabody was an important part of his personal and creative life. He died in 1864, but his work remains widely read for its rich language, moral complexity, and powerful sense that the past never fully lets go of the present.