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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is the best-known short story by Ambrose Bierce. The story was ..
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Andersen’s Fairy Tales is a collection of eighteen stories that includes such classics as "The Littl..
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Anthem
Anthem is set in a dystopian future Dark Age in which totalitarianism has extinguished individuality..
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Antigone
Antigone is the third and last of Sophocles’ Theban plays based on the legend of Oedipus and Jocasta..
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel that chronicles the attempt of an Engli..
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Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis, is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a bright and ambitious young man f..
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Aspects of the Novel
"Aspects of the Novel" by E. M. Forster is a seminal work of literary criticism that delves into the..
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Babbitt
There are brand names and titles that enter the language because of their ability to define an entit..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was published in 1880 and became the best-selling American novel of al..
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Beowulf
Beowulf is the title of the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and the first to be written in..
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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is the second of four seminal late perio..
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Bhagavad-Gita
The Bhagavad-Gita is the sixth book of the Mahabharata and a core book in Hindu scripture. Written s..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Boule de Suif
“Boule de Suif” is one of the first short stories by Guy de Maupassant and possibly the most famous...
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Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
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Carmilla
The Gothic novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction a..
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Common Sense
Common Sense articulated the argument for seeking independence from Britain when the matter was the ..
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Common Sense and the American Crisis
This disc contains the two pamphlets Paine wrote that inspired the American Revolution: Common Sense..
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account by Thomas de Quincey of his add..
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Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, the name of the main character in Crime and Punishment, is derived from the Russian “ra..
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The title character of Cyrano de Bergerac is a fictionalization of the basic facts life of a real pe..
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Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is a masterpiece of 18th century literature. ..
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield was Dickens’s eighth novel, published in 1850, having been serialized two years pr..
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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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