In this episode, John Green continues discussing George Orwell's 1984. Today he talks about what the novel 1984 has to say about what some have called today's surveillance society. We'll also look at the idea that language can be used as...

Swift's famous satire is available as an MP3 file from this resource. You can also download a zip file of the entire work, or look at an e-text. [00:27:15]

Crash Course Literature 207: Reader, It's Jane Eyre in this [13:12] video series of Crash Course Literature uses lively verbal explanations accompanied by entertaining visuals with a host who provides a multilayered insight into the...

Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about the Medieval British author Geoffrey Chaucer. Experts discuss his work and what we know about his life. Listening requires RealPlayer.

Audio of the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time." This forty-three minute episode is about Siegfried Sassoon's poetry. Experts discuss his life as well as his work. Listening requires RealPlayer.

The BBC provides audio clips taken from an interview with the children's author, Roald Dahl. Additional content includes a brief biography, a list of his key works, and links to other related stories on the BBC network.

In this episode, John Green discusses Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, To the Lighthouse. Let's face it. You're not reading To the Lighthouse for the plot. There's not a whole lot of plot, unless you count the tension about the beef...

The adventures of young Jim Hawkins are read aloud and available in both chapter segments and as a .zip file from this resource.