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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Podcast
by Mark Twain
Written 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. | 
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Readings
by Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem about consumer society's negative human values. |
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club. | 
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist. |
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Barron's EZ 101 Study Keys: American Literature
by Francis E. Skipp
In American Literature, all main periods are covered, from the colonial period to the twentieth century and the present movement toward cultural diversity. | 
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Call of the Wild is the story of Buck, a magnificent dog who is stolen from his idyllic life and sold for use on a Yukon dogsled team. |
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Civil Disobedience & Life Without Principle
by Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's primary essay on how to interact with Government. Here the author argues that a citizen must always uphold conscience over what is prescribed by law. | 
Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they... |
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Classics of American Literature
by Arnold Weinstein
Accessing the great American books—the classics—is a unique way of understanding the history of this country and of adding to our own personal estate of literary wealth. | 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 1920's, also known as the Jazz Age, were wild times, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald was its king. |
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Elmer Gantry
by Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence. | 
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D. Richardson
How do Emerson's ideas about freedom hold up in our age? Did this 19th century abolitionist and philosopher embrace the world around him or retreat into the world of ideas? |
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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
LearnOutLoud.com presents the Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast. Born in 1803, Emerson was renowned during the mid 19th century as a philosopher, writer, public orator, naturalist, and spiritual trailblazer. | 
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a lonely farmer trying to make a living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena. |
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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. | 
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. |
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Jay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins
by Leo Marx
America’s supreme economic, political and military power in the world is matched,
says Leo Marx, by “correspondingly ardent, patriotic, nationalistic …thinking of a large number of Americans… | 
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
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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Literature in English Podcast
by John Bishop
Literature in English from the mid-19th through the 20th century. | 
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
First published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate... |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
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. | 
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Using bold imagery and beautifully written language to illustrate his points, Emerson formulates a belief system where nature itself is a divine entity that we can know directly. |
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Poems, 1890
by Emily Dickinson
Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) was the first volume of her poetry to be published posthumously | 
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane follows Private Henry Fleming as he grows from an innocent youth to a seasoned veteran during the Civil War. |
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. | 
Song of Myself Selections
by Walt Whitman
“...I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume...” |
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A Study Guide to Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Ph.D.
Mark Twain's classic and controversial novel weaves together adventure, comedy, and satire... | 
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
At 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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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil... | 
Typee Podcast
by Herman Melville
Written by Herman Melville and performed by Michael Scherer. This is an unabridged, 11 1/2 hour, literary, mp3 audiobook–that plays well for mature and young audiences. |
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. | 
Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Karbiener
In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry. |
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. |