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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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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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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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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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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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Introductions to World Literature
by Peter Whitfield
Available on: Audio Download
Writer and cyclist Peter Whitfield discusses some of the gems of world literature. Do you want to know about Dante’s Divine Comedy or the novels of Jane Austen or Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
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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 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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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud.com presents The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1. The 5 essays contained on this audio program have been hand selected and represent specifically Emerson's early career as a writer.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Audio Download
Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of a quiet farming community, encounters something mysterious in the night.
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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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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Available on: Audio 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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The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Audio Download
The narrator's trial, condemnation, and torment at the hands of the monks of the Inquisition is related.
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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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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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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Available on: Audio 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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Available on: Audio Download
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth.
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Available on: Audio 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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Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
Available on: Audio Download
This is a short story about a lawyer with offices on Wall Street in New York City.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Available on: Audio Download
The 1920's, also known as the Jazz Age, were wild times, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald was its king.
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Available on: Audio Download
The Gift of the Magi is one of O. Henry's most famous stories.
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Available on: Audio 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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Song of Myself Selections
by Walt Whitman
Available on: Audio Download
“...I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume...”
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