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| 1. | | The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. |
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| 2. | | Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
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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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| 3. | | The Koran
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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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| 4. | | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
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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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| 5. | | Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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| 6. | | Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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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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| 7. | | To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
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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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| 8. | | Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
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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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| 9. | | The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
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This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time. |
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| 10. | | Plato's Republic
by Plato
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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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| 11. | | Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
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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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| 12. | | Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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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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| 13. | | Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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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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| 14. | | The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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| 15. | | Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
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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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| 16. | | Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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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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| 17. | | Plato's Symposium
by Plato
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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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| 18. | | The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
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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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| 19. | | An Introduction to English Literature
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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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| 20. | | Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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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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| 21. | | The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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| 22. | | The Odyssey
by Homer
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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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| 23. | | A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
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This is Jim Dale's incomparable telling of the beloved A Christmas Carol, a "little book," as Charles Dickens himself called it, which has been treasured by generations since December of 1843. |
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| 24. | | Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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| 25. | | The Odyssey
by Homer
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If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest war story, then "The Odyssey" is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. |