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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Digital 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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Typee
by Herman Melville
Available on: Podcast
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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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
by Orson Welles
Available on: Digital 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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Self Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital 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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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Digital 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 Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Digital Download
Prince Prospero and his courtiers, locked safely away from the plague of the Red Death...
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Eleonora
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Digital Download
A short story penned by Edgar Allen Poe, an American poet, a master of the horror tale...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Available on: Digital Download
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth.
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Poems, 1890
by Emily Dickinson
Available on: Digital Download
Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) was the first volume of her poetry to be published posthumously
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Available on: Digital Download
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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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Available on: Digital 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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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Available on: Digital Download
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Digital 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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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Available on: Digital Download
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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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Available on: Digital Download
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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Song of Myself Selections
by Walt Whitman
Available on: Digital Download
“...I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume...”
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The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
Available on: Digital Download
The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction.
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
Available on: Digital Download
This is a short story about a lawyer with offices on Wall Street in New York City.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Digital Download
Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of a quiet farming community, encounters something mysterious in the night.
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Available on: Digital Download
The Gift of the Magi is one of O. Henry's most famous stories.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Digital Download
The narrator's trial, condemnation, and torment at the hands of the monks of the Inquisition is related.
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The Awful German Language
by Mark Twain
Available on: Digital Download
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious.
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Self Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital Download
This seminal Transcendentalist essay is carefully read by B.R.McKay to convey the beauty of the language and complexity of thought. A virtuoso articulation of the non-dual.
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History
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital Download
This Transcendentalist essay carefully read By B.R.McKay to convey the beauty of the language and complexity of thought.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Available on: Digital Download
The 1920's, also known as the Jazz Age, were wild times, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald was its king.
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