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Previous Podcasts

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Preface

  The quest for eternal physical beauty has plagued societies for centuries. We live in a society that worships beauty. We are bombarded daily, sometimes even subliminally, by this eternal quest for beauty. Oscar Wilde explored this theme in his book, The Picture Of Dorian Gray. The book was written

• Robinson Crusoe - Chapter 4, Part 2

  "...I cut with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters -- and making it into a great cross, I set it up on shore where I first landed --'I came on shore here on the 30th day of September 1659.'" Illustration: N. C. Wyeth

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 9

  Basil Hallward announces his plan to exhibit "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in Paris; Dorian refuses to allow it.[audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/Dorian-Chapter9.mp3]  

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 3

  While Hester Prynne stands on her "pedestal of shame," clergymen demand that she reveal the name of the man who violated her.

• The Waste Land - Parts 3 & 4

  The Fire Sermon and Death by Water. [audio:http://greatbooksaudio.com/audio/The Waste Land-Parts 3 & 4.mp3]

• The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1

  The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World W

• The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 15

    Hester Prynne questions whether she should reveal the significance of the scarlet letter to little Pearl. [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/greatbooks/greatbooksaudio.com/audio/chapter15-scarletletter.mp3] Illustration: "He gathered herbs here and there" from chapter entitled "Hester and Pearl

• Ulysses - Episode 3

  Episode 3, Proteus In this chapter, characterized by its stream of consciousness narrative style, the action is presented to the reader through the prism of Stephen's interior monologue. He finds his way to Sandymount Strand and mopes around for some time, mulling various philosophical concepts, h