Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [history]

Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook.

Genre: history

In Our Old Home, Nathaniel Hawthorne turns a diplomat's posting into a quietly sharp-eyed journey through the landscapes, streets, and social rituals of mid-19th-century England. Writing as an American abroad, Hawthorne wanders from foggy port cities to country lanes and ancient manor grounds, lingering over everyday scenes that reveal a nation shaped by tradition, class, and history. He observes public ceremonies and private manners with a mix of curiosity, restraint, and occasional impatience, weighing the comfort of inherited culture against the stifling pull of convention. Along the way, he revisits places and stories that have long haunted the American imagination, testing romantic expectations against what he actually finds: weathered stone, bustling commerce, guarded courtesies, and the persistent presence of the past. Part travelogue, part cultural portrait, and part personal reflection, these sketches explore what it means to call a place home when your roots and your ideals belong to a newer world. The central tension is Hawthorne's own: admiration and skepticism, nostalgia and distance, as he tries to understand the old country without surrendering his American self.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:15) Chapter 02

(01:02:06) Chapter 03

(01:25:39) Chapter 04

(01:47:05) Chapter 05

(02:19:16) Chapter 06

(02:48:12) Chapter 07

(03:14:13) Chapter 08

(03:47:36) Chapter 09

(04:23:48) Chapter 10

(05:06:54) Chapter 11

(05:41:34) Chapter 12

(06:09:19) Chapter 13

(06:35:57) Chapter 14

(07:08:15) Chapter 15

(07:56:47) Chapter 16

(08:32:03) Chapter 17

(09:08:17) Chapter 18

(09:42:18) Chapter 19

(10:28:42) Chapter 20

(11:06:48) Chapter 21

(11:45:38) Chapter 22

(12:08:44) Chapter 23

(12:32:08) Chapter 24

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