The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Ambrose Bierce audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In a rugged corner of the Alps in the spring of 1680, Brother Ambrosius, a young Franciscan monk, is sent with two companions from Passau to the remote monastery of Berchtesgaden - a place of cold forests, steep valleys, and a community ruled as much by fear and superstition as by the Church. On the road he encounters Benedicta, the beautiful and defiant daughter of the local hangman, marked from birth as an outcast and treated as unclean by the very people who rely on her father's grim work. Moved by pity, then drawn by a feeling he struggles to name, Ambrosius begins to seek her out in secret, defying both the monastery's discipline and the village's rage. As gossip hardens into accusation and old cruelties revive, the monk and the hangman's daughter are forced to navigate a world where compassion is punished, desire is weaponized, and faith is tested against the harsh demands of tradition. Told with the flavor of a dark folktale, the novel explores shame, redemption, and the perilous boundary between spiritual devotion and human longing.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:36) Chapter 02

(00:30:03) Chapter 03

(00:42:39) Chapter 04

(01:07:50) Chapter 05

(01:23:39) Chapter 06

(01:41:44) Chapter 07

(02:03:47) Chapter 08

(02:16:51) Chapter 09

(02:35:24) Chapter 10

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