Audio Programs

My Double and How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale When two Frederic Inghams showed up in a small parish in Maine, the inevitable twist and turns of deceit could lead only to disaster More Details.

Buccaneers by Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new.... More Details.

At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton Porter Scotch-Irish immigrants Jimmy Malone and Dannie MacNous are partners in an earlier Indiana trapping and fishing enterprise.... More Details.

Alec Guinness Reads Passages from Johnathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' by Johnathan Swift Alec Guinness delivers beautifully a selection of passages from Gulliver's Travels.... More Details.

The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper Never have I beheld any spectacle which so forcibly taught the lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of the sun.... More Details.

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne A communal experiment in living a utopian pastoral life is shared by three people, but their dreams are interrupted by the realities of human imperfections.... More Details.

The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale The story of Philip Nolan, exiled on a ship for 55 years after being convicted of treason.... More Details.

On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather Aboard a steamer headed for New York, a young man falls in love with a married woman.... More Details.

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe Poe sets up a foundation for an ironic detective story that pits mind over matter and stumps the office police in their work.... More Details.

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving In the first story, Rip Van Winkle returns to a strange world after a very long sleep. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane encounters haunting difficulties.... More Details.

Afterward by Edith Wharton When the man of the house disappears, it can't be because of a ghost.... More Details.

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Spirited, courageous, and independent, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, Alexandra assumes responsibility for the family farm and her family upon the death of her father.... More Details.

Sarah Orne Jewett's Best Short Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett A gentle and often comic collection, including "A White Heron", "The Dulham Ladies", "The Guests of Mrs. Timms".... More Details.

Classic Mark Twain by Mark Twain Listen as a full-cast of performers brings to life the boyhood escapades, and misadventures, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.... More Details.

The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson Robertson's story, written 14 years before the historic event it presaged, parallels the descriptions and fate of the Titanic with psychic precision.... More Details.

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Amory Blaine, spoiled and misguided, arrogant and prideful, comes of age when, as a student at Princeton University he weighs in on the more profound aspects of life.... More Details.

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper A beautiful but disturbing and memorable book of war, courage, and love.... More Details.

Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace An unforgettable tale of betrayal, revenge and redemption, Ben-Hur tells of a Jewish nobleman who fell from Roman favor and was sentenced to live as a slave.... More Details.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London Jack London's classic follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog.... More Details.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London A tidewater dog named Buck is stolen from his original owner and catapulted into an arena of bad men and dogs.... More Details.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland.... More Details.

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The motivation and experience of a young soldier during the Civil War.... More Details.

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, the last tenant of the House of Usher line, summons his friend to come to him in his darkest need.... More Details.

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville This suspense-filled tale presents the collision between good and evil... as an adventure on the high seas.... More Details.

My Antonia by Willa Cather Here is Willa Cather's masterpiece about a spirited girl who, though down trodden by neglect and hard work, never "lost the fire of life".... More Details.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester Prynne, a social outcast, defies the narrow Boston Puritans' call for her head.... More Details.

O. Henry's Christmas Stories by O. Henry O. Henry loved Christmas.... More Details.

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane After a shipwreck, four men drift in a dingy upon the ocean.... More Details.

Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau In this classic essay, first published in 1862, Thoreau delights in fall's foliage and reveals both a practical and philosophical understanding of the changing environment.... More Details.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad In Joseph Conrad's classic, Marlow is a steamboat captain working on the Congo River for a Belgian trading company, asked to retrievea legendary ivory trader.... More Details.

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed by Mark Twain Only Mark Twain, with his wry humor, would weigh in on a military campaign's failure.... More Details.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac On the Road is the classic story of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, who set off on an odyssey through mid-century underground America, fueled by jazz, sex, drugs, mystical philosophy.... More Details.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life.... More Details.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain,F. H. Cornish Here is Mark Twain's classic story of the humorous adventures of a young orphan boy who lives beside the great Mississippi River in 1844.... More Details.

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.... More Details.

Captain David Grief by Jack London Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades.... More Details.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London In "Call of the Wild", a domestic dog is kidnapped from his comfortable life on a California estate and thrown into the wild north woods.... More Details.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Generations of readers have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi.... More Details.

The Other House by Henry James This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences.... More Details.

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895.... More Details.

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife's young cousin, Mattie.... More Details.

My Ántonia by Willa Cather My Ántonia chronicles the life of Ántonia, a Bohemian immigrant woman, as seen through the eyes of Jim, the man unable to forget her.... More Details.

The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs Back in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., he was a blueblood named Waldo Smith-Jones.... More Details.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain David Wilson is called "Pudd'nhead" by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity.... More Details.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition.... More Details.

Summer by Edith Wharton Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917.... More Details.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Nothing defines Mark Twain better than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.... More Details.

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Harsh, realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.... More Details.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless.... More Details.

My Antonia by Willa Cather Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia details of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.... More Details.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.... More Details.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.... More Details.