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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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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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C.S. Lewis Literature Overview
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture professor Timothy Shutt provides an overview of the life and literature of C.S. Lewis. He mentions various viewpoints that people have had about Lewis and says why he thinks Lewis is more popular now than he was in his time.
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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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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Available on: Audio Download
The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity.
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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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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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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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Alice in Wonderland by Storynory Podcast
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Podcast
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, to be followed by Alice Through the Looking Glass. Beautifully read by Natasha of Storynory. A free audio book.
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio Download
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a 19th century literary masterpiece and key philosophical work by Nietzsche.
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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 Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download
A collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness.
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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Available on: Audio Download
In many works by Herman Hesse, the German novelist and Nobel Prize winner, there is a theme depicting the duality of spirit and nature, body versus mind...
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio Download
A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard.
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The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Available on: Audio Download
“The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear;... “
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C. S. Lewis
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio 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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Democracy in America, Vol. I
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Available on: Audio Download
When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Available on: Audio 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 Door in the Wall
by H.G. Wells
Available on: Audio 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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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Available on: Audio 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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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download
Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!
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The Rocking-Horse Winner
by D.H. Lawrence
Available on: Audio Download
An English boy tries desperately to answer the voices whispering around the house,"there must be more money."
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