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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Digital 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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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Macbeth is William Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his most popular works.
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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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The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Digital Download
“The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear;... “
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Digital 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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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Digital Download
Alice falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm...
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C. S. Lewis
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital Download
Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar, born into a Protestant family in Belfast, though mostly resident in England. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature and for his Christian apologetics and fiction, especially the children's series entitled The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Available on: Digital 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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The Door in the Wall
by H.G. Wells
Available on: Digital Download
A man encounters a mysterious green door that seems to appear at various times in his life in different places about London.
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Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Available on: Digital Download
“Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!”
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Digital Download
A collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness.
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The Rocking-Horse Winner
by D. H. Lawrence
Available on: Digital Download
An English boy tries desperately to answer the voices whispering around the house,"there must be more money."
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Available on: Digital Download
Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child who has been recently orphaned.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Available on: Digital Download
This is James Joyce’s first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man.
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Robinson Crusoe Podcast
by Daniel Defoe
Available on: Podcast
Here is 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe in its entirety as a weekly podcast.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Available on: Digital Download
Jane Austen’s classic novel chronicles the events in the lives of the Bennet family.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Available on: Digital Download
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Available on: Digital Download
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English.
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The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Digital Download
The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville...
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The True King: Tolkien and the Medieval
by Bradley J. Birzer
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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The Devil's Pool
by George Sand
Available on: Digital Download
George Sand is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavour expected of women of her standing in France at the time...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Digital Download
In this children’s classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole...
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The Magic Shop
by H.G. Wells
Available on: Digital Download
This is a charming tale from H.G. Wells about a young boy named Gip who visits a magic shop for his birthday with his father.
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Online Audio
A classic tale of a bitter miser who is visited by the ghosts of his past present and future...
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Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Digital Download
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree “
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