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Running Time: 11 hours, 13 minutes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, chapter by chapter
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Run time: 4 hours, 3 minutes
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Running time: 23 hours, 26 minutes
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
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Total running time: 17 hours, 18 minutes
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Running time: 12 hours, 25 minutes
Note to parent: This book appears on many high school reading lists, but it contains mature themes. Please rely on your trusted curriculum provider for guidance as to which Canto’s to assign to your student.
01 Inferno: Canto I – Canto V 00:43:10
02 Inferno: Canto VI- Canto X 00:36:40
03 Inferno: Canto XI – Canto XV 00:47:04
04 Inferno: Canto XVI- Canto XX 00:30:36
05 Inferno: Canto XXI – Canto XXV 00:35:24
06 Inferno: Canto XXVI – Canto XXX 00:36:44
07 Inferno: Canto XXXI – Canto XXXIV 00:36:18
08 Purgatory: Canto I – Canto V 00:42:33
09 Purgatory: Canto VI – Canto XI 00:37:19
10 Purgatory: Canto XII – Canto XVI 00:33:15
11 Purgatory: Canto XVII – Canto XXI 00:35:31
12 Purgatory: Canto XXII -Canto XXVII 00:47:07
13 Purgatory: Canto XXVIII -Canto XXXIII 00:43:32
14 Paradise: Canto I- Canto V 00:41:08
15 Paradise: Canto VI – Canto XI 00:38:33
16 Paradise: Canto XII – Canto XVI 00:32:15
17 Paradise: Canto XVII – Canto XXI 00:39:50
18 Paradise: Canto XXII – Canto XXVII00:42:17
19 Paradise: Canto XXVIII- Canto XXXIII 00:44:09
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Summary: The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward son of Henry VIII of England. Due to a series of circumstances, the boys accidentally replace each other, and much of the humor in the book originates in the two boys’ inability to function in the world that is so familiar to the other (although Tom soon displays considerable wisdom in his decisions). In many ways, the book is a social satire, particularly compelling in its condemnation of the inequality that existed between the classes in Tudor England. In that sense, Twain abandoned the wry Midwestern style for which he was best known and adopts a style reminiscent of Charles Dickens. (Summary from Wikipedia.org)
Total running time: 6 hours, 56 minutes
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04 – The Prince / 05 – Tom as a Patrician
06 – Tom receives instructions
07 – Tom’s first royal dinner / 08 – The question of the Seal
09 – The river pageant / 10 – The Prince in the toils
12 – The Prince and his deliverer
13 – The disappearance of the Prince
14 – ‘Le Roi est mort—vive le Roi’
16 – The state dinner / 17 – Foo-foo the First
18 – The Prince with the tramps / 19 – The Prince with the peasants
20 – The Prince and the hermit / 21 – Hendon to the rescue
22 – A victim of treachery / 23 – The Prince a prisoner
24 – The escape / 25 – Hendon Hall
26 – Disowned / 27 – In prison
28 – The sacrifice / 29 – To London / 30 – Tom’s progress
31 – The Recognition procession
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Summary: War and Peace is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world’s greatest novels.
War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy’s time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia)
This novel is presented in 15 volumes. If you prefer to stream individual chapters within each volume from the computer (rather than downloading to Mp3) click on the Librivox page for the volume you are listening to, and you will find the chapter links there.
Book 1
Running time: 5 hours, 32 minutes
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Book 2
Running time: 4 hours, 32 minutes
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Book 3
Running time: 5 hours, 3 minutes
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Book 4
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Book 5
Running time: 3 hours, 53 minutes
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Book 6
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Book 7
Running time: 2 hours, 38 minutes
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Book 8
Running time: 3 hours, 57 minutes
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Book 9
Running time: 4 hours, 19 minutes
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Book 10
Running time: 7 hours, 30 minutes
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Book 11
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Book 12
Running time: 2 hours, 42 minutes
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Book 13
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
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Book 14
Running time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
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Book 15 This book has not been recorded yet, but it is in production. We will post the links here when it is finished. In the meantime, you can listen to the unedited recording of this book here, by clicking on the word Listen beside each chapter.
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The Sayings of Confucius
Summary: Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples comprise the crux of Confucianism. (Summary by Andrea L for Librivox)
Total running time: 3 hrs. 12 min.
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Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Running time: 14 hours, 54 minutes
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Summary from Librivox: Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the tenth edition of the first volume, The Age of Fable. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and eastern myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. (Summary by Kathleen Gatliffe for Librivox)
This book is often used as a high school text. Although the Wikimedia summary says it is appropriate for children, you might consider one of our other mythology titles to be more interesting for younger children.
Stories of Gods and Heroes
The Age of Fable: Publishers and Authors Prefaces
The Age of Fable: Chapter 1, Introduction
Chapter 2, Prometheus and Pandora
Chapter 3, Apollo and Daphne–Pyramus and Thisbe–Cephalus and Procris
Chapter 4, Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto–Diana and Actaeon–Latona and the Rustics
Chapter 6, Midas–Baucis and Philemon
Chapter 7, Proserpine–Glaucus and Scylla
Chapter 8, Pygmalion–Dryope–Venus and Adonis–Apollo and Hyacinthus
Chapter 10, Vertumnus and Pomon–Iphis and Anaxarete
Chapter 12, Cadmus–The Mermidons
Chapter 13, Nisus and Scylla–Echo and Narcissus–Clytie–Hero and Leander
Chapter 14, Minerva and Arachne–Niobe
Chapter 15, Graeae and Gorgons–Perseus and Medusa–Atlas–Andromeda
Chapter 16, Monsters and Giants–Sphinx–Pegasus and Chimaera–Centaurs–Griffin–Pygmies
Chapter 17, The Golden Fleece–Medea
Chapter 18, Meleager and Atalanta
Chapter 19, Hercules–Hebe and Ganymede
Chapter 20, Theseus and Daedalus–Castor and Pollux–Festivals and Games
Chapter 21, Bacchus and Ariadne
Chapter 22, The Rural Deities–The Dryads and Erisichthon–Rhoecus–Water Deities–Camenae–Winds
Chapter 23, Achelous and Hercules–Admetus and Alcestis–Antigone–Penelope
Chapter 24, Orpheus and Eurydice–Aristaeus–Amphion–Linus–Thamyris–Marsyas–Melampus–Musaeus
Chapter 25, Arion–Ibycus–Simonides–Sappho
Chapter 26, Endymion–Orion–Aurora and Tithonus–Acis and Galatea
Chapter 28, The Fall of Troy–Return of the Greeks–Orestesa nd Electra
Chapter 30, The Phaeacians–Fate of the Suitors
Chapter 31, Adventures of Aeneas–The Harpies–Dido–Palinurus
Chapter 32, The Infernal Regions–The Sibyl
Chapter 33, Aeneas in Italy–Camilla–Evander–Nisus and Euryalus–Mezentius–Turnus
Chapter 34, Pythagoras–Egyptian Deities–Oracles
Chapter 35, Origin of Mythology–Statues of Gods and Goddesses–Poets of Mythology
Chapter 36, Monsters (modern)–The Phoenix–Basilisk–Unicorn–Salamander
Chapter 37, Eastern Mythology–Zoroaster–Hindu Mythology–Castes–Buddha–The Grand Lama–Prester John
Chapter 38, Northern Mythology–Valhalla–The Valkyrior
Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur; The Mabinogeon, and The Hero Myths of the English Race
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This book is 10 hours and 33 minutes long.
This text is frequently used for high school students. For grammar students, I suggest one of the other King Arthur resources on My Audio School, which are better suited to that age group.
Summary from Wikipedia
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867) explains the his work is an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader finds them referred to he may not be at a loss to recognize the reference. Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
The Bulfinch version of myth, presents the myths in their literary versions, without unnecessary violence, psychology or ethnographic information. The Bulfinch myths are an indispensable guide to the cultural values of the American 19th century.
The narrator of the Preface has a heavy accent, but the other chapters are read clearly.
Chapter 2: The Mythical History of England
The narrator mistakenly says that he is reading “chapter 18”, but later corrects himself and does, indeed, read “chapter 8”.
Chapter 9: The Adventure of the Cart
Chapter 10: The Lady of Shalott
Chapter 11: Queen Guenever’s Peril
Chapter 12: Tristram and Isoude
Chapter 13: Tristram and Isoude (continued)
Chapter 14: Sir Tristram’s Battle with Sir Launcelot
Chapter 19: The Sangreal, or Holy Graal
Chapter 20: The Sangreal (continued)
Chapter 21: The Sangreal (continued)
Chapter 22: Sir Agrivain’s Treason
The Mabinogeon
Introductory Notes, chapter 1: The Britons
Chapter 2, The Lady of the Fountain
Chapter 3, The Lady of the Fountain (continued)
Chapter 4, The Lady of the Fountain (continued)
Chapter 5, Geraint, Son of Erbin
Chapter 6, Geraint, Son of Erbin (continued)
Chapter 7, Geraint, Son of Erbin (continued)
Chapter 8, Pwyll, Prince of Dyved
Chapter 9, Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr
Chapter 12, Kilwich and Olwen (continued)
Chapter 14, Hero Myths of the British Race
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
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Running time: 23 hours, 22 minutes
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
1984 by George Orwell
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Lord Byron, selected poems
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She Walks in Beauty
The Prisoner of Chillon
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
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Norton Anthology of Poetry links
The Norton Anthology of Poetry has provided a web companion with several poems read aloud. Here is their homepage where you can find several additional resources. Below are links to the poems on their site. Click on the links to go to their site, and then click on the speaker beside the text of each poem to hear it read aloud. You’ll need QuickTime for the audio player to work.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
Sir Patrick Spens Early Modern Ballads
Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 1542) They Flee from Me
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) When I Was Fair and Young
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) Sonnet 75
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Sonnet 146
John Donne (1572 – 1631) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743 – 1825) The Rights of Woman
William Blake (1757 – 1827) London
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) Kubla Khan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Ulysses
Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) #712
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Easter 1916
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) Sunday Morning
William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963) This Is Just to Say
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) Poetry
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) Dulce Et Decorum Est
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) The Weary Blues
W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973) In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) Fern Hill
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) We Real Cool
Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997) Tenebrae
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Diving into the Wreck
Derek Walcott (b. 1930) A Far Cry from Africa
Eavan Boland (b. 1944) That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Rita Dove (b. 1952) Parsley
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) Persimmons
Edgar Allen Poe, selected short works
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character’s fraught relationships with his “sickly, cantankerous” wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett for Librivox)
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Total running time: 3 hours, 13 minutes
In Flanders Field by John McCrae
Selected Poems by Robert Frost
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Clicking the following links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School. This excellent site, Robert Frost Out Loud, has several recordings of Frost poems recited by the poet himself, many more read by a Frost enthusiast, and text for each included poem.
Click here to listen to Robert Frost reading his own poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Robert Frost reads his poem The Road Not Taken
You can hear more audio recordings of Robert Frost poetry at Robert Frost Out Loud. Poems with a blue arrow beside the title are recorded in the poet’s own voice. To listen, click on the poem titles.
Click here to read the e-text for the following poems.
A Boy’s Will is Frost’s first full volume of poetry. E-text for A Boy’s Will (you must have Adobe Reader to open this e-text).
Contents:
Part I
1. Into My Own
2. Ghost House
3. My November Guest
4. Love and a Question
5. A Late Walk
6. Stars
7. Storm Fear
8. Wind and Window Flower
9. To the Thawing Wind
10. A Prayer in Spring
11. Flower-gathering
12. Rose Pogonias
13. Asking for Roses
14. Waiting—Afield at Dusk
15. In a Vale
16. A Dream Pang
17. In Neglect
18. The Vantage Point
19. Mowing
20. Going for Water
Part II
21. Revelation
22. The Trial by Existence
23. In Equal Sacrifice
24. The Tuft of Flowers
25. Spoils of the Dead
26. Pan with Us
27. The Demiurge’s Laugh
Part III
28. Now Close the Windows
29. A Line-storm Song
30. October
31. My Butterfly
32. Reluctance
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets is a podcast from The Poetry Foundation gives brief biographical information about Robert Frost, along with archival recordings of Frost reading his own poetry, recorded at the Library of Congress in 1959.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Summary: The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller’s life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to meet her teacher Ann Sullivan, and learned to communicate using the manual alphabet. It then goes on to chronicle her days as a college student. (Summary by Maria for Librivox)
Running time: 3 hours, 51 minutes
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