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The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller which premiered in 1953. It famously used the Salem Witch Trials to offer a commentary on McCarthyite America. This production stars Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, Jr., Joe Spano, and Michael York, among others. You can stream the audio here.
Summary: This book follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it’s another ripping historical yarn by Scott (summary by annise for Librivox)
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Total running time: 19 hours and 25 minutes
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To Sleep
Sonnet on the Sea
The Human Seasons
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
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Ode to Autumn
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
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Total running time: 15 hours
Summary from Wikimedia: The Birth Mark is a romantic short story which examines obsession with human perfection.
Summary: The title is from the Greek thanatos (“death”) and the suffix -opsis (literally, “sight”); it has often been translated as “Meditation upon Death”.
Due to the unusual quality of the verse and Bryant’s age when the poem was first published in 1817 by the North American Review, Richard Henry Dana, Sr., then associate editor at the Review, initially doubted its authenticity, saying to another editor, “No one, on this side of the Atlantic, is capable of writing such verses.”
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Total running time: 14 hours, 30 minutes
# 01 – The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
# 03 – Paris Challenges Menelaus
# 08 – The Victory of the Trojans
# 09 – The Embassy to Achilles
# 10 – Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies
# 11 – Agamemnon’s Day of Glory
# 12 – The Trojans Break the Wall
# 13 – Neptune helps the Achaeans
# 14 – Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home
# 16 – Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles
# 17 – The Light around the Body of Patroclus
# 19 – Achilles Goes Out to Fight
# 21 – Achilles Drives the Trojans Back
Summary: A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young “simple and sensitive character” who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own “shadowy ideal of conduct” on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, “the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought ‘art novel’ in the tradition of Flaubert and James. (Summary by Stewart Wills for Librivox)
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Total running time: 14 hours, 25 minutes
Summary: Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth. (Summary by rachelellen for Librivox)
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Total running time: 6 hours, 47 minutes
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Total running time: 11 hours, 40 minutes
Summary: A poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. (Summary by DebraLynn for Librivox)
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Summary: The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato’s best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by constructing an imaginary city ruled by philosopher-kings. The dialogue also discusses the nature of the philosopher, Plato’s Theory of Forms, the conflict between philosophy and poetry, and the immortality of the soul. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Run time: 4 hours, 3 minutes
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Running time: 23 hours, 26 minutes
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