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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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