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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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Classical Mythology: The Romans
by Peter Meineck
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Rome grew from a tiny community of small hill villages near the River Tiber in central Italy to one of the most powerful empires the world has seen. The Romans themselves believed that their great city was founded in the middle of the eighth century BCE.
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Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
by Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell transformed the way we view mythology...
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Sense and Sensuality
by Ravi Zacharias
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Why versus Why Not? Why did God place us in a world full of pleasures if we aren't meant to perue them all?
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Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
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C. S. Lewis produced a body of work as diverse as it is beloved. He is known the world over for his cherished Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also the author of novels for adults, scholarly work, and the writings that rival his Narnia series in terms of continued popularity: his eloquent defences of Christianity.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream AudioLearn
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From the Fairies to Hyppolyta, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts.
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Hamlet AudioLearn
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From the symbolism of Yorick’s skull to the mystery of death, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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Julius Caesar AudioLearn
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From the Brutus to Octavius, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature
by Michael Drout
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Science fiction literature and films have contributed indelible images to the popular imagination, from H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds to Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to the fiction of "cyberpunks."
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Bard of the Middle Ages: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
by Michael Drout
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Had Geoffrey Chaucer not written, or not written so well, the last 600 years of English literature would have been decidedly different. His creative style and use of language served as one of the primary foundations on which later writers built.
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Shakespeare: Ten Great Comedies
by Raphael Shargel
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Professor Raphael Shargel channels his passion for teaching and expertise as a Shakespearean scholar into this illuminative study of the Immortal Bard’s ten great comedies.
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Monsters, Gods, and Heroes
by Timothy B. Shutt
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From the very outset in the West—from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE—the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres.
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The Last Empire
by Gore Vidal
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Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene.
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Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
by Michael Drout
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The overwhelming success of the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter series aptly demonstrates that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the new millennium.
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A Way with Words, Part IV: Understanding Poetry
by Michael Drout
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In part IV of this fascinating series, Professor Drout submerses listeners in poetry's past, present, and future.
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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
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This, the first audio-biography of Marcel Proust, tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses....
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Kafka in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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A handsome recluse, plagued by indecision and hypochondria, Kafka nonetheless exhibited an extraordinary strength.
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Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
by Eric H. Cline
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The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
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Greek Drama: Tragedy and Comedy
by Peter Meineck
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The plays of one ancient city 2,500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of all subsequent Western drama, not only on the theatrical stage, but on opera, film, television, stand-up comedy, and dance…
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The History of English Literature
by Perry Keenlyside
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English literature may very well be the greatest body of imaginative writing the world has yet seen...
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Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry
by Karen Karbiener
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In this course, Walt Whitman and the Birth of Modern American Poetry, we'll explore how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry.
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Macbeth AudioLearn
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From the Lady Macbeth to the Three Witches, AudioLearn is your complete audio study guide to Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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1000 Years of Laughter
by David Timson
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This delightfully entertaining anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature.
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