American Classics Audio & Video LearnOutLoud.com has hundreds of titles on classics of American literature. Whether you want to listen to the many novels of Henry James or Mark Twain, or you just want to kick back with a fun reading of a Raymond Chandler novel narrated by Elliot Gould, you'll find the best literature America has to offer. For those books you thought you'd never find the time to indulge in, you'll find unabridged classics like Ayn Rand's " The Fountainhead" and " Atlas Shrugged". For those without as much time, we also have collections of short stories like "Great American Stories" and " Classic American Short Stories". The Teaching Company produces audio lecture series taught by university professors that cover " 20th-Century American Fiction", " Classics of American Literature", and other aspects of American literature. LearnOutLoud.com has works that made America's literature classic as well as the contemporary titles that build on our rich literary tradition. |
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1. | | The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Available on: Audio Download (Free) | Podcast (Free)The Scarlet Letter is a novel published in 1850 and written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. |
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2. | | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Available on: Audio Download (Free)The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period. |
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3. | | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. |
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4. | | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Podcast by Mark Twain Available on: PodcastWritten by Mark Twain and performed by Marc Devine. This is an unabridged, 9-1/2 hour, literary, mp3 audiobook–that plays well for mature and young audiences. |
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5. | | Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Available on: Audio Download (Free)Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. |
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6. | | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago. |
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7. | | Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Available on: Audio Download (Free)In Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson formulates his philosophy of self-reliance; an essential part of which is to trust in one's present thoughts and impressions rather than those of other people or of one's past self. |
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8. | | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass Available on: Audio Download (Free)First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography. |
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9. | | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Available on: Audio CD ($27.99) | Audio CassetteAt once an intimate memoir of childhood, a complicated exploration of race and poverty in the South, and a moving portrayal of uncompromising conscience, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called the greatest American novel of the 20th century. |
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10. | | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Available on: Audio Download ($18.59) | Audio CD ($24.00)Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. |
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