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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Credits: Digital Download
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Credits: Digital Download
Siddhartha is the story of an Indian man who sets out on a spiritual quest of discovery. Rejecting conventional spiritual practices and teachings, he attempts to find his own path to enlightenment.
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The Koran
Credits: Digital Download
The Koran is not only one of the most influential books of prophetic literature but also a literary masterpiece in it’s own right.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Credits: Digital Download
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
This epic poem, considered the greatest in the English language, as John Milton seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” through relating the story of Satan’s rebellion in Heaven, the deception and fall of Man, and the presaged event of Redemption through Jesus, the Son of God…the “Second Adam.”
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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credits: Digital 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 Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Credits: Digital Download
This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
At once an intimate memoir of childhood, a complicated exploration of race and poverty in the South, and a moving portrayal of uncompromising conscience, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
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Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle.
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Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art.
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816...
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Plato's Republic
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
Plato was a teacher who wrote in the dialogue form as a means of challenging his students to think deeply about fundamental questions. Consider this hypothesis: Plato wrote each book of The Republic to be performed by actors playing characters such as Socrates, Glaucon, Ademantus, Thrasymachus.
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Credits: Digital Download
One of Rand's earliest novels, Set in a far off future, Anthem traces the story of one man's discovery of his own value in the midst of a world that has abolished all concept of the self.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Credits: Audio CD
Steinbeck tells of two ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one stepahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse.
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Digital Download | MP3 CD
Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Credits: Audio CD
With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience.
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An Introduction to English Literature
Credits: Digital Download
Literature is the history of ideas. It is a reflection of thoughts, feelings and culture of a time and a place. What better place to start when learning about the world we live in?
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Plato's Symposium
by Plato
Credits: Digital Download
The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy.
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The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
Credits: Digital Download
The Confucian Analects (literally translated as "discussion over Confucius' words") collects a record of the philosophy, discussions and day to day life of the great chinese scholar Confucius (551-479 BCE).
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The tragic romance of Verona's two too-young star-crossed lovers, loving each other in spite of their parents' spite, told in beautiful imagery and poetry.
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Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credits: Digital Download
Using bold imagery and beautifully written language to illustrate his points, Emerson formulates a belief system where nature itself is a divine entity that we can know directly.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Credits: Digital Download
The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of the 17th century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman...
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Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a marvelously comic study of delusion and its consequences: Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha...
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Credits: Audio CD
If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
Credits: Digital Download
Homer's Odyssey is the thrilling and moving tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war. For ten years he experiences storms, shipwrecks, and...
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