Literature Audio & Video

The entire Chronicles of Narnia read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast.

The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of...

Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer.

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history.

This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English.

The Ramayan(a) is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (sm?ti).

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.