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She Walks in Beauty
The Prisoner of Chillon
abridged reading
entire e-text for The Prisoner
Click here to see downloadable CurrClick materials which could be used in a study of Shakespeare. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School.
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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
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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
Read this poem and others by John McCrae
In Flanders Field by John McCrae
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Chapter 01
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Click here to view CurrClick resources which could be used with The Odyssey. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemus by Jordaens
Odysseus derides Polyphemous by Turner
Odysseus returns Chryseis to her Father by Claude Lorrain
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Total running time: 2 hrs. 24 min.
Click here to view resources from CurrClick which could be used with Pride and Prejudice. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
e-text for Because I could not stop for Death
There is no Frigate like a Book
If I can stop one heart from breaking
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
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Summary: The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power, putting the future of the crusade in jeopardy. Sir Kenneth of Scotland finds himself caught up in events, and finds both his honour and his life are now on the line. Can a cure be found for the King? Can Kenneth redeem his honour? – Written by Rowen for Librivox.
Here is The Raven in some foreign languages, for you language students:
Internet archive page
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To see a downloadable project pack from CurrClick which could be used while reading David Copperfield, click here. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Total running time: 35 hours, 22 minutes
06 – I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance
07 – My First Half at Salem House
08 – My Holidays, Especially One Happy Afternoon
09 – I Have a Memorable Birthday
10 – I Become Neglected, And Am Provided For
11 – I Begin Life On My Own Account, And Don’t Like It
12 – Liking Life On My Own Account No Better, I Form A Great Resolution
13 – The Sequel of My Resolution
14 – My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind About Me
16 – I am a new boy in more senses than one
19 – I Look About Me and Make A Discovery
22 – Some Old Scenes And Some New People
23 – I Corroborate Mr. Dick, And Choose A Profession
29 – I visit Steerforth at his home, again
32 – The Beginning of a Long Journey
38 – A Dissolution of Partnership
45 – Mr. Dick Fulfills My Aunt’s Predictions
50 – Mr. Peggotty’s Dream Comes True
51 – The Beginning of a Longer Journey
52 – I Assist at an Explosion
53 – Another Retrospect
54 – Mr. Micawber’s Transactions
56 – The New Wound, And The Old
61 – I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents
Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick relating to Ben Franklin.
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To look at Benjamin Franklin’s book Poor Richard’s Almanac, click here. Use the arrows to turn the pages of the book.
01-Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
02-Beginning Life as a Printer
05-Early Friends in Philadelphia
07-Beginning Business in Philadelphia
08-Business Success and First Public Service
09-Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
10-Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities
15-Quarrels with the Proprietary
17-Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier
19-Agent of Pennsylvania in London
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Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, describing a Christian’s journey through life to reach heaven. Part 1 was written by John Bunyan in 1679 whilst he was imprisoned for conducting unauthorised religious services, whilst Part 2 was not written until 1684, and is not included in many versions of this text. This recording includes both parts, and inline scripture references. (Summary by Joy Chan for Librivox)
Click here to view The Pilgrim’s Progress Writing Pages Pack at CurrClick, which could be used in studying or notebooking about Pilgrim’s Progress. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Part One
Part Two
Pilgrimage of Christiana and Her Children
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Chapter 1, How Robin Hood Came to be an Outlaw
chapter 2, Robin Hood and the Tinker
chapter 3, The Shooting match at Nottingham Town
chapter 4, Will Stutely Rescued by his companions
chapter 5, Robin Hood turns butcher
chapter 6, Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair
chapter 7, How Little John Lived at the Sheriff’s
chapter 8, Little John and the Tanner of Blyth
chapter9, Robin Hood and Will Scarlet
chapter10, The Adventure with Midge the Miller’s Son
chapter11, Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
chapter12, Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar
chapter13, Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage
chapter14, Robin Hood aids a sorrowful Knight
chapter 15,How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts
chapter 16, Little John Turns Barefoot Friar
chapter 17, Robin Hood Turns Beggar
chapter 18, Robin Shoots before Queen Eleanor
chapter 19,The Chase of Robin Hood
chapter 20,Robin Hood and Guy of Guisborne
chapter 21, King Richard comes to Sherwood Forest
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This book can be streamed in 3 parts or downloaded as a zip file at Free Audio.org.
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used for a study of Frederick Douglass. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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Running time: 2 hours, 53 minutes
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used in a study of Beowulf. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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