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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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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Credits: Audio CD | 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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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio Cassette
This play was directly inspired by the witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still of interest to people in modern times.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability.
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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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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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The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
Credits: Digital Download
Originally published by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, Peter Kyne's The Go Getter has become a continual source of inspiration for salesman, entrepreneurs and employers.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Credits: Audio CD
This novel about a proud, independent black woman was first published in 1937 and generally dismissed by reviewers.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Credits: Digital Download
The characters are based on Twain’s schoolmates and the setting on Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.
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Bartleby and Other Stories
by Herman Melville
Credits: Digital Download
Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, "I would prefer not to", wreaks havoc on his workplace.
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Credits: Digital Download
Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they...
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Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Ben Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two-million copies and was translated into numerous languages...
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Credits: Audio CD
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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Civil Disobedience & Life Without Principle
by Henry David Thoreau
Credits: Digital Download
Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's primary essay on how to interact with Government. Here the author argues that a citizen must always uphold conscience over what is prescribed by law.
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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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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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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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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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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago.
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
In Raymond Chandler's first novel, detective Philip Marlowe takes on the Sternwood family. The...
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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume 2
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credits: Digital Download
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present Volume 2 of The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Credits: Audio CD
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year, the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black...
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