Great Books - A Chapter a Day
The world's great literature narrated in mp3, one chapter at a time.
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- Returning January 24
George Orwell's Animal Farm begins on Wednesday, January 24th. - Poem of the Week The Chimney Sweeper
The Chimney Sweeper was penned by William Blake (1757-1827), and included in Songs of Innocence (1789): a poetry collection written from the child’s point of view, of innocent wonderment and spontaneity. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 3.3
"I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain." - Heart of Darkness Chapter 3.2
It's all about IVORY. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 3.1
The tribes "worship" Kurtz. - Poem of the Week Trees
Alfred Joyce Kilmer published Trees and Other Poems in 1915. The popularity of his poem "Trees," helped ensure this collection's success. - Posting to Odeo Channel
My Odeo Channel (odeo/587788996f76d2b2) - Heart of Darkness Chapter 2.3
The steamer is attacked; the helmsman takes a spear in the side; Marlow meets the “Harlequin” agent. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 2.2
"You should have seen the pilgrims stare! They had no heart to grin, or even to revile me: but I believe they thought me gone mad -- with fright maybe." - Poem of the Week In the Highlands
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. But the author of the classics, “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde” preferred wide open spaces such as the Highlands, far from the town which worsened his ill health. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 2.1
An "extravagant mystery" is uncovered. - Poem of the Week The Walrus and the Carpenter
Two great classics among children’s “nonsense” books are Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. They are written in prose with poems interspersed. "The Walrus and the Carpenter," is from Through the Looking Glass. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 1.2
“... I was curious to see whether this man, who had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort. would climb to the top after all. - Poem of the Week_The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken is usually interpreted as an assertion of individualism, but one critic has argued that it is a slightly mocking satire on a perennially hesitant walking partner of Frost's who always wondered what would have happened if he had chosen their path differently. - Heart of Darkness Chapter 1.1
The story begins as Charlie Marlow recounts, beginning at dusk and going well into the evening, his adventure to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames River estuary.
