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Previous Podcasts

• Siddhartha - Chapter 5

  Kamala, the courtesan, teaches Siddhartha about making love. Play Siddhartha - Chapter 5 Download - Chapter 5          

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 21

  Roger Chillingworth learns of Hester Prynne's secret plan. Illustration: "Smile with a sinister meaning" from the 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter published by Charles R. Osgood & Co. in Boston. Courtesy of hawthorneinsalem.org [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/a

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 6

    Incident of Dr. Lanyon: the death of another old friend.  

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Chapter 4

  The Carew Murder Case: a maidservant watches from her window as a man is beaten to death.

• Winesburg, Ohio - Chapter 13: THE STRENGTH OF GOD

  THE STRENGTH OF GOD, concerning Reverend Curtis Hartman The distracted man trembled from head to foot, partly from cold, partly from the struggle in which he was engaged. Hours passed and a fever assailed his body. His throat began to hurt and his teeth chattered. His feet on the study floor felt

• The Raven

  When it appeared in 1845, the dark poem of lost love, The Raven, brought Edgar Allen Poe national fame. "With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or th

• Dracula - Chapter 17

  Jonathan and Mina arrive in London to take part in a deadly mission.

• Metamorphosis - Part 2

  He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value - in order to see what had been happening there.