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Introduction to Poetry
by Robert Frost
Available on: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.
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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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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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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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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Audio Download
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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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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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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Audiobooks iPhone & iPod Touch Application
Available on: iTunes Application
Listen to over 1,800 audiobooks totally free. Audiobooks is a brand new way to access all your favorite audiobooks on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
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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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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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The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
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 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
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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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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 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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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 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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Eleonora
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Audio Download
A short story penned by Edgar Allen Poe, an American poet, a master of the horror tale...
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Available on: Audio Download
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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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.
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If
by Rudyard Kipling
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 If by Rudyard Kipling.
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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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American Indian Fairy Tales
by Henry R Schoolcraft
Available on: Audio Download
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories.
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Audio Download
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.
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Available on: Audio Download
In a world where "being things" was better than "doing things"; a world where heredity and family connections were the most important things of all; in an Age of Innocence, they broke all the rules.
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