Sunday, March 20, 2011

Listen to Genius (Audio Book)

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audio selections from the classics of world literature

Short Stories · Poetry · Novels · History · Society · Politics · Travel · Adventure · Science · Philosophy · Business · Economics · Human Sciences · Aesthetics · Drama · Medicine

Aesthetics:

Ludwig van Beethoven, A selection from Beethoven's Letters

Walter BenjaminA selection from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Sarah BernhardtA selection from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

Charlotte Brontë, Biographical Notice of Ellis And Acton Bell

Enrico Caruso, A selection from The Art of Singing

Frédéric ChopinSelected Letters of Frédéric Chopin

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Interpretation of Symbols

Salvador DalíA selection from The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

Emily Dickinson, A selection from Letters of Emily Dickinson

Paul Gauguin, A selection from Noa-Noa

Vincent van Gogh, A selection from van Gogh's Letters

Woody Guthrie, Letter from Woody Guthrie to Alan Lomax

Charles Ives, A selection from Essays Before a Sonata

Henry James, A selection from The Art of the Novel

Wassily Kandinsky, A selection from Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Leonardo da VinciA selection from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Franz Liszt, A selection from The Life of Chopin

Michelangelo, Selected Sonnets on Art & the Artist

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartA selection from The Letters Of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anaïs Nin, Preface to the book, Little Birds

Pablo Picasso, A selection from Picasso Speaks

Edgar Allan Poe, The essay The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan Poe, The essay Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales

Ranier Maria Rilke, A selection from Letters to a Young Poet

Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovA selection from the book, Principles of Orchestration

John Ruskin, A selection from The Poetry of Architecture

George SandA selection from The Letters of George Sand to Gustave Flaubert

Friedrich SchillerA selection from On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Percy Bysshe Shelley, A selection from A Defence of Poetry

Konstantin Stanislavski, A selection from My Life in Art

Gertrude Stein, A selection from Narrative

Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyA selection from Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Mark Twain, A selection from the essay The Turning Point of My Life

Paul Valéry, A selection from The Course in Poetics

Richard Wagner, A selection from On Conducting

Oscar Wilde, Essays on Aesthetics

Virginia Woolf, A selection from A Room of One's Own

Frank Lloyd WrightA selection from the essay, Studies and Executed Buildings



Baseball Lessons:


Cy Block, So You Want to be a Major Leaguer?

Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth's Book of Baseball



Business & Economics:


Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

Andrew CarnegieA selection from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Charles Henry DowA selection from Editorials in the Wall Street Journal

Benjamin FranklinAdvice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One; and Rules Proper to be Observed in Trade

William Stanley Jevons, A selection from The Coal Question

John Maynard KeynesA selection from The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Thomas MalthusA selection from An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society

Adam Smith, A selection from The Wealth of Nations

Thorsten Veblen, A selection from The Theory of Business Enterprise

Max WeberA selection from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism



Drama:


Henrik Ibsen, A selection from The Doll's House

Eugene O’Neill, A selection from The Hairy Ape

August Strindberg, The Play, The Stronger



Fables & Tales:


Aesop, Aesop's Fables

Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes

L. Frank BaumA story from American Fairy Tales The Wonderful Pump

Thomas Bulfinch, Cupid and Psyche

Grimm Brothers, Rumpelstiltskin

Grimm Brothers, The Valiant Little Tailor

Grimm Brothers, Rapunzel

Grimm Brothers, Tom Thumb

Grimm Brothers, Hansel and Gretel

Grimm Brothers, The Golden Goose

Beatrix PotterA selection from The Tale of Peter Rabbit
and
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny




History/Society/Politics:


Abelard and HeloiseA selection from The Letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise

John Adams, Selected Letters of John Adams to Abigail Adams

Abigail AdamsA selection from The Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams

Jane Addams, A selection from Twenty Years at Hull House

Susan B. Anthony, A selection from The Trial of Susan B. Anthony

Mary Antin, A selection from the book, The Promised Land

Marcus Aurelius, A selection from The Meditations

Jane Austen, A Letter to Her Niece

Julius Caesar, A selection from The Gallic Wars

Giacomo CasanovaA selection from the autobiography, The Story of My Life

Willa Cather, A Personal Sketch of the Prairie School House

Winston ChurchillA selection from The River War:
An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan


Carl von Clausewitz, A selection from On War

Rebecca Harding Davis, A selection from The Civil War

Frederick Douglass, A selection from My Bondage and My Freedom

W. E. B. Du Bois, A selection from The Souls of Black Folk

Mohandas Gandhi, A selection from My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas Gandhi, A selection from My Experiments with Truth

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, A selection from Autobiography

Emma Goldman, A selection from Living My Life

Ulysses S. GrantA selection from The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Lady Augusta GregoryA selection from the book Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

Alexander Hamilton, A selection from Federalist Paper #1

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., A selection from The Path of the Law

Julia Ward HoweA selection from The Other Side of the Woman Question:
A Response to Francis Parkman


Victor Hugo, Love in Prison

Thomas Jefferson, A selection from Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson

Mother Jones, A selection from The Autobiography Of Mother Jones

Helen Keller, A selection from The Story of My Life

Abraham LincolnA selection from his Speech at the Cooper Institute, New York February 27, 1860

Thomas Macaulay, A selection from History of England

Niccolo Machiavelli, A selection from The Prince

James Madison, A selection from the Federalist Paper Number 38

Alfred Thayer MahanA selection from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Murasaki Shikibu, A selection from The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu

Thomas Paine, A selection from The Crisis

Gifford Pinchot, A selection from The Fight for Conservation

Plutarch, A selection from The Life of Alexander

Jacob Riis, A selection from The Battle with the Slum

Eleanor RooseveltA selection from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do

Margaret Sanger, A selection from Woman And The New Race

Lady Sarashina, A selection from The Diary Of Lady Sarashina

George Bernard ShawA selection from the preface of The Heartbreak House

William Tecumseh ShermanA selection from Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman

Sei Shonagon, A selection from The Pillow Book

Elizabeth Cady StantonA selection from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elinore Pruitt Stewart"The Adventure of the Christmas Tree" from Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Cornelius Tacitus, A selection from The Annals

Ida Tarbel, A selection from The History of the Standard Oil Company

Alexis de Tocqueville, A selection from Democracy in America

Sojourner TruthA selection from The Autobiography of Sojourner Truth

Frederick Jackson TurnerA selection from The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Booker T. Washington, A selection from Up from Slavery

H. G. Wells, A selection from The Human Adventure

Ida B. Wells-BarnettA selection from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Edith Wharton, A selection from Fighting France

Walt Whitman, A selection from Specimen Days

Lady Francesca WildeA selection from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Zitkala-Sa, A selection from Impressions of an Indian Childhood



Human Sciences:


Franz Boas, A selection from The Mind of Primitive Man

Émile DurkheimA selection from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

James Frazer, A selection from The Golden Bough

Sigmund Freud, Dreams Have a Meaning

Sigmund FreudA selection from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Zora Neale Hurston, A selection from Mules & Men

Carl JungA selection from the essay General Description of the Types

Alfred L. KroeberA selection from Handbook of the Indians of California

Kurt Lewin, A selection from A Dynamic Theory of Personality

Bronislaw MalinowskiA selection from Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands

George Perkins MarshA selection from The Earth as Modified by Human Action

Abraham Maslow, A selection from A Theory of Human Motivation

George Herbert MeadA selection from the essay, The Objective Reality of Perspectives

Jean Piaget, A selection from The Language and Thought of the Child

Carl RogersA selection from Some Observations on the Organization of Personality

Edward SapirA selection from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech

Ferdinand de Saussure, A selection from The Nature of Language

Georg Simmel, A selection from How Is Society Possible?

Stith Thompson, A selection from Tales of the North American Indians

Lev Vygotsky, A selection from Thought and Language



Medicine:


Louisa May Alcott, A selection from Hospital Sketches

Clara Barton, A selection from The History of The Red Cross

Elizabeth BlackwellA selection from Pioneering Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Dorothea Dix, The Memorial To The Massachusetts Legislature

Hippocrates, The Oath and Law of Hippocrates

Florence Nightingale, A selection from Notes on Nursing

Linda RichardsA selection from Reminescences of America's First Trained Nurse

Lillian D. Wald, A selection from The House on Henry Street



Novels:


Louisa May Alcott, A selection from the novel Little Women

Francis Hodgson Burnett, A selection from The Secret Garden

Edgar Rice Burroughs, A selection from Tarzan of the Apes

Miguel de Cervantes, A selection from Don Quixote

Agatha Christie, A selection from The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Joseph Conrad, A selection from Heart of Darkness

James Fenimore Cooper, A selection from Last of the Mohicans

Stephen Crane, A selection from The Red Badge of Courage

Daniel DefoeA selection from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

John Dos Passos, A selection from Three Soldiers

Fyodor Dostoevsky, A selection from Notes from the Underground

Alexandre Dumas, A selection from The Count of Monte Cristo

George Eliot, A selection from Middlemarch

F. Scott Fitzgerald, A selection from The Beautiful and Damned

Gustave Flaubert, A selection from Madame Bovary

Knut Hamsun, A selection from Growth of the Soil

Thomas Hardy, A selection from The Return of The Native

Herman Hesse, A selection from Siddartha

Aldous Huxley, A selection from Crome Yellow

Henry James, A selection from The Turn of the Screw

Sarah Orne Jewett, A selection from The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sinclair Lewis, A selection from Babbit

Jack London, A selection from The Sea Wolf

Lucy Maud Montgomery, A selection from Anne of Green Gables

Christine de PizanA selection from The Book Of The Duke Of True Lovers

Marcel Proust, A selection from Remembrance of Things Past

Mary Shelley, A selection from The Last Man

Upton Sinclair, A selection from The Jungle

Bram Stoker, A selection from the novel Dracula

Harriet Beecher Stowe, A selection from Uncle Tom's Cabin

Jonathan Swift, A selection from Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift, A selection from A Tale of a Tub

Sigrid Undset, A selection from Jenny

Jules Verne, A selection from Journey to the Center of the Earth

Voltaire, A selection from Zadig: An Oriental History

Rebecca West, A selection from the novel The Return of the Soldier



Philosophy:


Aristotle, A selection from Metaphysics

Saint Augustine, A selection from Confessions

AverroesA selection from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

Henri-Louis Bergson, A selection from Creative Evolution

Cicero, A selection from The Orator

Confucius, A selection from The Analects

René Descartes, A selection from Discourse on Method

John Dewey, A selection from Democracy And Education

Ralph Waldo Emerson, A selection from Experience

Ralph Waldo Emerson, A selection from Nature

al - Ghazali, A selection from Confessions or Deliverance from Error

G. W. F. HegelA selection from Introduction to The Philosophy of Art

Thomas Hobbes, A selection from The Leviathan

David HumeA selection from An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Edmund Husserl, A selection from Ideas

William James, What Makes a Life Significant?

William James, A selection from The Varieties of Religious Experience

Immanuel Kant, A selection from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Yoshida Kenko, Essays of Yoshida Kenko

Soren Kierkegaard, A selection from The Expectation of Faith

Lao Tzu, A selection from the Tao Te Ching

Gottfried LeibnizA selection from On the Ultimate Origination of Things

John Locke, A selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Moses Maimonides, A selection from The Guide for the Perplexed

John Stuart Mill, A selection from Autobiography

Michel de Montaigne, The essay Of Fear

Thomas More, A selection from Utopia

Friedrich Nietzsche, A selection from Beyond Good and Evil

Blaise Pascal, A selection from Pensees

Charles Sanders Peirce, A selection from How to Make our Ideas Clear

Plato, A selection from The Republic

Jean Jacques RousseauA selection from The Confessions of Jean-jacques Rousseau

Josiah Royce, A selection from the book The World and the Individual

Bertrand Russell, A selection from Appearance and Reality

Arthur Schopenhauer, Selections from Thinking for Oneself

Benedict de Spinoza, A selection from A Theologico-Political Treatise

D. T. Suzuki, A selection from Manual of Zen Buddhism

Rabindranath TagoreA selection from Sadhana: The Realisation of Life

Henry David Thoreau, A selection from Walden

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Miguel de Unamuno, A selection from The Tragic Sense of Life

Evelyn UnderhillA selection from Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness

Alfred North Whitehead, A selection from The Concept of Nature

Ludwig Wittgenstein, A selection from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Paramahansa Yogananda, A selection from Autobiography of a Yogi



Poetry:


Conrad Aiken, Selected Poems

Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

Djuna Barnes, A Book of Repulsive Women

Charles Baudelaire, A selection from Flowers of Evil

William BlakeA selection from Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience

Anne Bradstreet, Selected Poems

Emily Brontë, Selected Poems

Elizabeth Barrett BrowningA selection from Sonnets from the Portuguese

Lord Byron, A selection from Don Juan

Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

John Clare, Selected Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Hart Crane, Selected Poems

Dante Alighieri, A selection from The Divine Comedy

Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Selected Poems

T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland

Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

Robert Graves, A selection from Fairies and Fusiliers

H. D., A selection of poems from Sea Garden

Homer, A selection from The Odyssey

Robinson Jeffers, Selected Poems

John Keats, Selected Poems

Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat

Emma Lazarus, Selected Sonnets

Li Qingzhao, Selected Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A selection from Evangeline

Amy Lowell, Selected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems

Marianne Moore, Selected Poems

Dorothy Parker, Selected Poems

Arthur Rimbaud, The Drunken Boat and Other Poems

Christina Rossetti, The poem Goblin Market

Rumi, Selected Poems

Vita Sackville-West, Selected Poems

Carl Sandburg, A selection from Chicago Poems

Sappho, Selected Poems

William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint

Wallace Stevens, Selected Poems

Allen Tate, Selected Poems

Virgil, A selection from Georgics

Phillis Wheatley, Selected Poems

Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloomed

William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems

William Wordsworth, A selection from The Prelude

Elinor Wylie, Selected Poems



Science:


Charles BabbageA selection from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Francis Bacon, A selection from Novum Organum

Liberty Hyde Bailey, A selection from The Holy Earth

Niels BohrA selection from On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules

Nicolaus CopernicusDedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

Marie Curie, The Discovery of Radium

Charles Darwin, A selection from On the Origin of Species

Arthur Stanley EddingtonThe Introduction to The Nature of the Physical World

Albert Einstein, A selection from Relativity

Albert Einstein, A selection from Relativity

Galileo GalileiA selection from Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences

Edwin P. Hubble, A selection from the essay The Exploration of Space

Alexander von HumboldtA selection from Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe

Alfred J. Lotka, Contribution to the Energetics of Evolution

Ada LovelaceA selection from Notes by the Translator to L.F. Menabrea's
Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq


Charles Lyell
A selection from The Student's Elements Of Geology


James Clerk MaxwellA selection from On Faraday's Lines of Force

Isaac NewtonA selection from The Principia, or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Max PlanckA selection from the Nobel Lecture The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory

Erwin SchrödingerA selection from The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, A selection from On Growth and Form

Alan Turing, A selection from Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Alfred Russel Wallace, A selection from The Malay Archipeligo

Wright Brothers, A selection from The Wright Brothers' Airplane



Short Stories:


Sherwood Anderson, Sophistication

Temple Bailey, The Eternal Feminine

Honoré de Balzac, Innocence

Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonThe short story A Painful Memory from Childhood

Giovanni Boccaccio, A Tale from The Decameron

Dorothy Canfield, The Poet and Scullery Maid

Anton Chekhov, The Bet

Kate Chopin, A Pair of Silk Stockings

Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Edna Ferber, The Homely Heroine

Mary Wilkins Freeman, The Christmas Sing in Our Village

Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

Ellen Glasgow, A Point in Morals

Susan Glaspell, At Twilight

Maxim Gorky, Her Lover

Bret Harte, Outcasts of Poker Flat

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Vision of the Fountain

Lafcadio Hearn, A Story of Divination

O. Henry, The Last Leaf

James Joyce, Eveline

Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

Rudyard Kipling, My Own True Ghost Story

Heinrich von Kleist, The Beggar Woman of Locarno

Selma Lagerlöf, His Mother's Portrait

H. P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann

Lu Xun, My Old Home

Thomas Mann, Loulou

Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill

Guy de Maupassant, The Piece of String

Herman Melville, Charle's Isle and the Dog-King

Marguerite de Navarre, A Tale from The Heptameron

Luigi Pirandello, War

Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

Katherine Anne Porter, The Martyr

Alexandr Pushkin, The Shot

Benjamin Rosenblatt, Zelig

Saki (H. H. Munro), The Open Window

Saki (H. H. Munro), The Story-Teller

Olive Schreiner, The Woman's Rose

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Manse

Leo Tolstoy, Youth

Ivan Turgenev, The District Doctor

Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Edith Wharton, Roman Fever

Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House

William Butler Yeats, Two Tales from Celtic Twilight



Travel/Adventure:


Roy Chapman Andrews, Hunting the Great Invisible

John James Audubon, A selection from Birds of America

Mary Austin, A selection from The Land of Little Rain

William BartramA selection from Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida,...

Henry Walter BatesA selection from The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Isabella BirdA selection from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

John Burroughs, A selection from The Spell of the Yosemite

Richard Burton, A selection from Lake Regions of Central Africa

George CatlinA selection from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians

Christopher ColumbusA selection from the Journal of Christopher Columbus

Susan Fenimore Cooper, A selection from Rural Hours

Davy CrockettA selection from Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee

Richard Henry Dana, Jr., A selection from Two Years Before the Mast

Margaret FullerA selection from At Home and Abroad; or,
Things and Thoughts in America and Europe


Zane Grey, Tales of Fishes

W.H. Hudson, A selection from The Naturalist in La Plata

Washington Irving, A selection from The Voyage

Samuel JohnsonA selection from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Lewis and Clark, A selection from The Journals of Lewis And Clark

John Muir, A selection from The Mountains of California

Frederick Law OlmstedA selection from the report Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove

Francis ParkmanA selection from The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life

Marco Polo, A selection from The Travels of Marco Polo

John Wesley Powell, A selection from The Canyons of the Colorado

Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly

Theodore Roosevelt, A selection from An Autobiography

Ernest Thompson SetonA selection from The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey Of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou

Ernest Shackleton, A selection from South

John Millington Synge, A selection from In Wicklow and West Kerry

Henry David ThoreauA selection from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Izaak Walton, A selection from The Compleat Angler

George WashingtonA selection from Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, Etc.

Mary WollstonecraftA selection from Letters on Sweden, Norway, And Denmark

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