The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection Audiobook By Nathaniel Hawthorne cover art

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Paul Auster, James Naughton
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $21.59

Buy for $21.59

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks, perhaps one of the earliest accounts in literature of a father caring for a young child.

Each day starts early and will be given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry picking and subduing armies of thistles. At one point Mr. Herman Melville comes over to enjoy a late night discussion of eternity over cigars.

With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life -- then and now. The collection also includes Hawthorne's short stories ""Young Goodman Brown,"" ""The Minister's Black Veil"" and ""Rappaccini's Daughter.""

Read by James Naughton.

 Anthologies & Short Stories Short Stories Anthologies Historical Funny Biographies & Memoirs
All stars
Most relevant
Would that there were greater appreciation in the modern reader for the short story. Hawthorne is master of his craft. These stories are well worth reading again, and again.

A valuable group of Hawthorne’s short stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It is so frustrating that Audible does not label chapters. But listening to Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny was like stumbling onto gold. Anyone who has ever observed a five year old and loved them will adore this charming account of a father taking care of his little one while “Mama” is away. It captures such a precious stage of human development so charmingly — and reminds you that although times have changed, parenting hasn’t (was up until 3:00 am with Herman Melville, but back up at 6:00 am to take care of “the old gentleman.”).

Skip to Chapter 5: Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.