Michael Shelden Audio Books

Professor of English at Indiana State University and the author of the literary biography Mark Twain: Man in White, Michael Shelden is the perfect candidate to lead this series of lectures on one of the most important—and most influential—of all American authors.

Big Brother Is Watching You: The words are inextricably associated with the classic dystopian novel 1984 and with its revered author, George Orwell.

The Lost Generation from Professor Michael Shelden evokes one of the most creative periods in American literature....

Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this brilliant account of the legendary author's life....

In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins....

Few writers can rival George Orwell’s experience of history: serving as a police superintendent in Burma; living through the Blitz of London, becoming one of the great prose stylists of our century.

Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame.