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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download
The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Available on: Audio Download | Podcast
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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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Macbeth is William Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his most popular works.
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Available on: Audio Download
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
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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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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio Download
The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature...
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The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Audio Download
Prince Prospero and his courtiers, locked safely away from the plague of the Red Death...
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).
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Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
Available on: Audio Download
In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present Invictus by William Ernest Henley.
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Aesop's Fables Podcast
by Aesop
Available on: Podcast
Aesop's Fables Podcast collects the timeless moral fables of the Greek storyteller Aesop.
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Zaadz Notes: Rumi
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
If you've ever heard of Sufism or the Whirling Dervishes, then you've been exposed, at least in part, to some of Rumi's teachings. Born in modern day Afghanistan in the 13th century, he was one of the greatest Sufi philosophers and was the inspiration for Sema, the "universal movement" practiced by the Whirling Dervishes.
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Self Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Audio Download
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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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Available on: Audio Download
This is James Joyce’s first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
by Orson Welles
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
The finest radio drama of the 1930’s was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life
by Stephen Leacock
Available on: Audio Download
The author holds forth on the subject of success and its true value in life.
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The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
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In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
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Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Audio Download
Alice falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm...
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We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
by Alice Walker
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and one of the most prominent novelists of her generation, Alice Walker is also a bestselling non-fiction writer whose work has been widely praised.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Available on: Audio Download
Written in China over two thousand years ago, The Art of War provides the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations
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If
by Rudyard Kipling
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In our continuing effort to provide you with the most inspiring and exceptional self development literature available, LearnOutLoud.com and Zaadz.com present If by Rudyard Kipling.
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Beowulf
by Anonymous
Available on: Audio Download
This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English.
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Available on: Audio Download
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since.
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