PATRIOTISM! --
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
The Federalist Papers - Various
George Washington's Farewell Address (Facsimile)
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death" - Patrick Henry
"I Have a Dream" - Dr. Martin Luther King
The Man Without a Country - Edward E. Hale
On Liberty - John Stewart Mill!
Patriotic Speeches - Various
"Pledge of Allegiance Commentary" - Red Skelton
Signers of the Declaration - Various
The United States Bill of Rights
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (Smithsonian Mag. "history")
Purchasable...The Doomsday Machine - Daniel Ellsberg
BEOWULF -- Anonymous
- Beowulf - Old English (OE) (Original)
- Beowulf - Modern English (MnE)
- *Beowulf (OE and MnE) (Parallel Text)
- Beowulf (MnE) II
- Beowulf (MnE) (Audio)
- Beowulf (MnE) Prose
- Beowulf (MnE) Prose II
- Beowulf (MnE) Prose III
- Beowulf (MnE) Prose IV
STUDY MATERIAL
Beowulf and the Epic Tradition
Beowulf
OEDIPUS REX -- Sophocles
- Oedipus Rex
- Oedipus the King
- Oedipus the King II
- Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles
- Three Theban Plays
- Oedipus Rex (PBS shorter version)
The INFERNO -- Dante
- Dante's Inferno -- Silent Movie, 1911!! Amazing!!
- Divine Comedy - The Inferno (illustrated)
- *Divine Comedy - The Inferno (Longfellow translation)
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri The Inferno
- Divine Comedy - Hell (Inferno) (Page 7)
CANTERBURY TALES -- Chaucer
- *Canterbury Tales (ME and MnE) PARALLEL TEXT
- Canterbury Tales, VOL.1 (Middle English [ME])
- Canterbury Tales, VOL.2 (ME)
- Canterbury Tales (ME)
- Canterbury Tales (ME): ELLESMERE MANUSCRIPT
- Canterbury Tales (MnE)
- Stories from Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (MnE)
- Canterbury Tales (MnE) Prose
- Chaucer for Children (MnE) Prose
- eChaucer
STUDY MATERIAL:
Canterbury Tales (Annotated!)
Canterbury Tales: Elsmere Collection
Canterbury
Canterbury Pilgrims and Their Ways
Canterbury Chimes: Retold for Children
(Great Introduction)
Pilgrims' Way
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury
Visualizing Chaucer (University of Rochester)
FOR FUN:
The New Canterbury Tales
(Maurice Hewlett -- NOT Chaucer's Pilgrims!)
MYTHS, FAIRY TALES, & FABLES
- Aesop's Fables
- Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece - Elsie F. Buckley
- Fairy Books of Andrew Lang
- Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
- Adaptions of the Grimm Fairy Tales
- English Fairy Tales
- Myths of the Norsemen - H. A. Grueber
- Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon - Washington Irving (includes "Rip Van Winkle")
- Stories from Hans (Christian) Anderson
- The Odyssey -- Samuel Butler Translation
The Odyssey -- William Cowper Translation
The Odyssey -- Alexander Pope Translation The Odyssey -- Samuel Butler Translation AUDIO
SHAKESPEARE
VARIOUS CLASSICS
1984 - George Orwell (Audio)
A Tree Grown in Brooklyn - Smith
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Audio)
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
Anthem - Rand
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Atlas Shrugged - Rand
Brave New World - Huxley
Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
Christmas Carol - Dickens
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Decameron - Boccaccio
Part I Part II
Divine Comedy - Dante
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson (Audio)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (Audio)
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Audio)
Gulliver's Travels - Swift (AUDIO ONLY)
House of Seven Gables - Hawthorn
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kidnapped - R.L. Stevenson
Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (Audio)
Lorna Doone--A Romance of Exnor - R. D. Blackmore
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
Moby Dick, or The Whale - Herman Melville
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Peter Pan - Barrie
Pride and Prejudice - Austin
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Robin Hood
Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Tales of Men and Ghosts - Edith Wharton
Tess of d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Man in the Iron Mask - Dumas
The Man Without a Country - Edward E. Hale
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Pyle
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Pirate - Walter Scott
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Secret Garden - Burnett
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorn
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonngutt
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
White Fang - Jack London
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
NON-FICTION:
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The author of The Great Gatsby!)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave - Douglass
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
BONUSES:
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
SIX CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY -- James Baldwin
The Lock and Key Library- Real Life Detective Stories (1831!)
Myths of the Norsemen - H. A. Grueber
Dracula--Facts, Myths --Rudolph J. Strutz
WELL, ISN'T THIS INTERESTING!
Christmas Short Works Collection - Librivox (AUDIO)
My First Little German Book (Juvenile but cute!)
Peter and Wendy - J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Witch Winnie's Mystery (1891) - Elizabeth Champney
SHORT STORIES:
"Cask of Amontillado" - Edgar Allen Poe
"Gift of the Magi"- O'Henry (Audio HERE)*
"Gift of the Magi" - O'Henry (Audio HERE)
"The Invalid's Story" - Mark Twain
"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson
"The Minister's Black Veil" - Nathaniel Hawthorn
"The Monkey's Paw" - W. W. Jacobs
"The Necklace" - Guy de Maupassant
"The Possibility of Evil" - Shirley Jackson
"The Read-Headed League" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A Rose for Emily" - William Falkner
"To Build a Fire" - Jack London
"Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" - Tim O'Brian
Susan Glaspell wrote one story in two forms, presenting a unique opportunity to compare genres of Drama and Fiction:
"A Jury of Her Peers" - Susan Glaspell
"Trifles" - Susan Glaspell
