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Previous Podcasts

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 7, Part III: SURRENDER

  SURRENDER, concerning Louise Bentley The young man took Mary Hardy into his arms and kissed her. When she struggled and laughed, he but held her more tightly. For an hour the contest between them went on and then they went back into the parlor and Louise escaped up the stairs. [audio:http://www.po

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 12

  Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale takes to the scaffold, preparing to reveal his ignominious secret to the townspeople. Illustration: "They stood in the noon of that strange splendor" from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Illustration drawn by Mary H

• The War of the Worlds - Chapter 21

  The Death of the Curate: "It happened while I hid in the coal cellar." [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter21-war.mp3]

• The Waste Land - Part 1

  The Waste Land (1922) is a highly influential book-length poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 5

  Sybil gushes about her passionate love for Dorian, her "Prince Charming."[audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/Dorian-Chapter5.mp3]

• Dracula - Chapter 7

  The Demeter arrives in England during a storm. "...the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below, as if shot up by the concussion, and running forward, jumped from the bow onto the sand."

• Dracula - Chapter 15

  Van Helsing and Seward discover that Lucy Westenra, aka 'the bloofer lady',  is UnDead.

• Siddhartha - Chapter 1

  Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse. It deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian man called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in