Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[@missholly7534]

How has this story been up for 3 years and I'm just finding it? One of my all-time favorites, and just as big a surprise as your cute American accent! Nice one, Tony!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Nathaniel Hawthorne one of my favorites! Fantastic story, masterful narration. Will hear it again, again to be sure. Thank you!

[@teddydog6229]

I'm especially looking forward to this. I was at Hawthorne's house just this past weekend. He wasn't home.

[@ClassicGhost]

Wonder where he was?

[@-Reagan]

**Snap** just missed him!

[@teddydog6229]

@@-Reagan No doubt he was walking through the park staring thoughtfully into the distance as autumnal winds blew around him and leaves fell and 'Dust In The Wind' played in the background. I suppose it's also possible he's dead. That would be a damn shame but kind of confirms what 'Dust In The Wind' was getting at.

[@stardust949]

Listening to this brought me back in time to the first time I read this, about a hundred years ago---thanks Tony!

[@bluegreenglue6565]

It's so nice to hear this story again. This is another of those that one is forced to read in middle school or high school -- before one even has sufficient context or abstractive ability to see it as more than a literal case of spooky demonic triumph.

[@-Reagan]

A 🌹 rose for the rose, Tony!

[@ahuddleston6512]

Perfect timing for my beddy bye story, plus I love Nathaniel Hawthorne. I always seem to have the weirdest dreams afterwards.

[@ClassicGhost]

You are welcome. Let me know your dreams --only if they are about Hawthorne obviously.

[@ahuddleston6512]

@@ClassicGhost So that means Edgar Allan Poe is out of the question? Wink 😉😉

[@donaldmccleary9015]

I'm in the middle of this now. Your narration is beyond fantastic. It is so good! This is an awesome story. I love the description of the forest as Goodman walks through it. Amazing!

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you so much!

[@aarondutil3077]

A classic story, the proto-folk horror tale that is still read in schools across New England today. Good job!

[@skeleczar]

We read it in Upper Michigan in HS! I think it’s pretty common across the country.

[@sarahthieben810]

This was fantastic. When you were taking about the devil being presented as an amenable guy I went straight to The Witches of Eastwick. Jack Nicholson as a nice guy coming to you through your greatest fears with the promise of erasing the banalities of life has stuck with me since I was 15 years old. Brilliant.

[@ClassicGhost]

They say the Devil is a charming man, indeed.

[@andreac5724]

Thank you much!!!!!! Great combination of his writing and your voice!!!!!

[@daljordan8921]

Thank you for doing Hawthorne.

[@SukiSays23]

Absolutely brilliantly done. Thank you.

[@deborahmcgee7970]

Well done as usual 💐👍

[@mijiyoon5575]

I used to luv reading *Hawthorne* & still do ... this is a joy to my ears👂👂 I have a copy of *House of the Seven Gables* & the short stories too 👍👍👍👍👍👍🎬📽 D.H. Lawrence criticism of Hawthorne can be humorous at times after he referred to him as *blue eyed little darling of a Hawthorne* or some such 🤔 I kept ALL my anthology books from when I was earning my BA & I'm glad I did b/c now I couldn't afford to buy'em especially in HC😠

[@johnryan3913]

Aint it the truth? Plus libraries do not seem to really carry books much and bookstores? You mean like Amazon? Glad I have some of my early favorites

[@martiwilliams4592]

Just as gripping x2--time negating -caught in witch-New England and not sure how to return to Now. Nico is great at that! Thank you! Fantastic narration. Would love to hear you read The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables. Chapter by chapter. Please?

[@ClassicGhost]

Ha. Maybe one day

[@martiwilliams4592]

@@ClassicGhost Just when you find time

[@msmascare]

THANK YOU!!!

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Perfect choice for Thanksgiving day. Thanks Tony!

[@777Rowen]

Excellent Narration! Such a classic story

[@ClassicGhost]

Many thanks!

[@martiwilliams4592]

Ditto this time around. Creeeepy! Masterful presentation, entertaining, informative commentary! Perhaps House of Seven Gables is too long, but would live to hear you read Scarlet Letter. Please ? Thank you!

[@jturtle5318]

Thank you!

[@roxanavasilakis9435]

Thank you so much 🌳😊

[@ClassicGhost]

Always welcome

[@katiaplantscientist]

A perfect story for the night before Halloween!

[@dartmart9263]

“We are OF the universe” is a concept that seems to be foreign to many environmentalists these days. Humans and our impact IS a key part of nature.

[@ClassicGhost]

I actually agree. If a type of squirrel or tree reaches a new island by floating on a log or a seed comes on the foot or a bird, or a human boat, then there is only a difference if you consider humans are NOT part of nature. This idea that we are separate from the. natural world leads to the idea we can do what we like with it as if it's nothing to do with us. I also don't like campaigns to eradicate ''foreign' species.

[@dartmart9263]

@@ClassicGhost “I also don't like campaigns to eradicate ''foreign' species.” While I agree with you there when it comes to general competition, a species that introduces a new dangerous pathogen on your existing native population is a disturbing scenario. You might end up with neither the old nor the new.

[@jacksantana-k1w]

Eyes Wide Shut....

[@mijiyoon5575]

I have the DVD *The Witch* if you reference the *Robert Eggers* movie 2015 incredible lighting & staging of scenes in that movie

[@ClassicGhost]

Yes, I have that. I went to the cinema to see it too

[@mijiyoon5575]

@@ClassicGhost We did that also & I had to have the DVD

[@Shineon83]

PURE. Horror.

[@sugarfalls1]

"And little damsels, blush not sweet ones, have bidden me the soul guest to an infant's funeral!" Woohoohahaha!! I think he's saying that some of these girls killed their own children because they didn't want them. Wow, that's impressive for 1835!! Sorry if I say impressive, but considering even in our own time how taboo that is, think about 1835! lol Wow! Maybe some people are taking that meaning the child is already dead, but if the devil is saying it, I think not. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a Scorpio. I think that pretty much says it all! lol

[@TiroDvD]

I contest your history of theology/philosophy a bit. It's just offset by one. Pre-Englightenment you have God made the world but it is an active part. Newton being an alchemist is a reflection of this. Newton's pursuit of Alchemy is a search for Truth in the Spiritual Realms as earnestly as he did in the Physical ones. It's in the Enlightenment you get a God separate from the Universe (Deism). God being separate is taking a quasi Scientific Method approach. "If we assume zero interaction/interferes our conclusions are more simple." Late Modern we toss out God for pure Materialism. However as you point out human cannot just toss out the Spiritual. So we have Transcendentalism, Romanticism, New Age/Hippie stuff. And this actually is reflected in (legit & rigorous) Sociologist study. My favorite trivium: In 2010, England barely believes in God, but it's just as Haunted as it was in 1900. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2nNhqaFq5yEjpY

[@ClassicGhost]

Contest please. I only muse. Although I think that the idea of the Abrahamic God making the world as an object and setting himself outside it colours the three Abrahamic religions right up until the present day. I'm an idealist rather than a materialist so I go with Spinoza and Bishop Berkley and the Upanishads.

[@djlystics]

I love your accent. I'm not too familiar with Great Britain and United Kingdom but you sound Irish. Am I wrong? Either way, it sounds cooler than ours.

[@ClassicGhost]

No, I'm from Cumbria, which is in England right by the Scottish Border on the shores of the Irish Sea

[@djlystics]

@@ClassicGhost Oh ok. I was going to say “or either near Ireland or Scotland “. Either way perfect voice for KZbin, radio, tv, story telling, etc

[@ClassicGhost]

I am half Scottish and quarter Irish so…

[@djlystics]

@@ClassicGhost Oh ok. That explains it. Cool.

[@jostockton.]

Nah, ours are great.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Your accents are uncanny. In every sense of the word.

[@ClassicGhost]

I enjoy doing them but sometimes I know I'm not spot on. Of course the trouble with KZbin is that whatever accent you do, someone listening speaks that way for real so they can tell if you slip up.