"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had."

One of the most significant occurrences in America during the 20th century was the rise of African-American writers to the forefront of literature.

The complete play in five acts....

Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation....

For many years the name Anais Nin was associated with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist.

Anne Sexton's poems are brutally honest, often controversial, and always thought-provoking. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners.

The complete play in five acts....

Full cast recordings of two of Arthur Miller's greatest plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Featuring Lee J. Cobb (Willy Loman), Mildred Dunnock (Linda Loman), Dustin Hoffman (Bernard)…

All the world's a stage.... In the enchanted forest of Arden, everyone has their way. Sins are...

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood.

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.

A rewarding collection of Old English poetry read by J.D. Bessinger, Jr in the original, this is a rare and magnificent reading, a definite addition to all verse collections.

Read in Old English, this collection of poetry includes selections from "Beowulf," the most well-known epic poem in Englands history, as well as other classics such as "Caedmons Hymn, The Dream of the Road, The Wanderer, The Battle of Brunan Burg" and "A Wifes Lament."

Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut....

A classic of our time, beautifully performed by Jeremy Irons and the basis of the award-winning television mini-series, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family.

The myths created by the Greeks and Romans, and the tales of the heroes and heroines that emerged during the Age of Chivalry in Europe, reflect man's enduring emotions: jealousy and hatred, compassion and devotion.

Here for your enjoyment Caedmon has collected twenty-one of the greatest poets of the English language.

A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets.

Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror.

The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...

"I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry," grumbles the patron saint of misers, Ebenezer Scrooge. Curmudgeonly Scrooge thinks Christmas is "humbug" with only one purpose - to cheat honest employers like himself out of a day's labor from his workers.

Speeches of Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Chamberlain and King George VI and others. With selections from his memoirs read by Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.