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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Available on: Audio Download
Two love stories are set against the backdrop of high society in Tsarist Russia.
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Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
by Irving Rothman
Available on: Online Video
The Swedish Academy, comprising 18 lifetime members, each year awards the Nobel Prize to the world’s greatest writer for a lifetime of writing achievement.
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Available on: Audio Download
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov...
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Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
by John R. Wallace
Available on: Audio Download
This course surveys many of the best recognized works of poetry, prose and theater of premodern Japan between the 8th through 17th centuries.
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Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
by John R. Wallace
Available on: Audio Download
This class explores Japanese literature and, to some extent, culture from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 until the present.
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Contemporary Japanese Literature
by John R. Wallace
Available on: Audio Download
This class provides an opportunity to read and discuss some of the central ideas that Oe Kenzaburo has developed over his writing career.
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What Men Live By and Other Tales
by Leo Tolstoy
Available on: Audio Download
The four stories in this collection ask profound questions and gently supply helpful, non-dogmatic hints to their answerings: What is the most important thing to do?
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The Tales of Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov
Available on: Audio Download
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.
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The Home and the World
by Rabindranath Tagore
Available on: Audio Download
The Home and the World is a 1916 novel, set in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip.
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The Diary of a Superfluous Man
by Ivan Turgenev
Available on: Audio Download
Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype – the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means leading a dreary existence, without purpose and led on by events which may, as in this story, engulf him.
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