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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
Available on: Audio Download
The entire Chronicles of Narnia read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast.
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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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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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Audio Download
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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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.
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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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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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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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Existentialism in Literature and Film
by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Available on: Audio Download
The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God.
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