Classic Literature and Poetry

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 Edgar Allan Poe

• "Alone" (poetry) 2 mins.
• "The Pit and the Pendulum part1"
  (short story) 30 mins. 1file
  

William Shakespeare

• "Sonnet #29" (poetry) 1.5 mins.
• "Sonnet #40" (poetry) 1 min.
• "Sonnet #55" (poetry) 1.5 mins.
• "Sonnet #100" (poetry) 1.5 mins.
• "Sonnet #106" (poetry) 1.5 mins.
• "Sonnet #116" (poetry) 1.5 mins.
  

Rudyard Kipling

• "Danny Deever" (poetry) 3 mins.
• "Dedication" (poetry) 1 min.
  

Hans Christian Anderson (Short Stories)

• "The Little Match Girl" 7mins.
  part1, part2, part3
  

Beatrix Potter (Short Stories)

• "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" 7 mins.
  part1, part2, part3
  

The Brothers Grimm (Fairy Tales)

• "King Grisly-Beard" 9 mins.
  part1, part2, part3
• "Briar Rose" 11.5 mins.
  part1, part2, part3, part4
• "The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage"
  5 mins.
• "The Travelling Musicians" 10 mins.
  part1, part2, part3
• "Rumpelstiltskin" 9 mins.
  part1, part2, part3
• "Clever Gretel" 6 mins.
• "Rapunzel" 11 mins.
  part1, part2, part3
  

Benjamin Franklin

• "Dialogue Between Franklin and the Gout" (essay)
  part1, part2, part3, part4, part5
  

Mark Twain

• "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" (essay)
  part1, part2, part3, part4, part5

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Epic Poetry)

• "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" 33.5 mins.
  part1, part2, part3, part4, part5, part6, part7

Walt Whitman (Poetry)

• "Song of Myself part-01&02"
• "Song of Myself part-06&07"
• "Song of Myself part-09"
• "Song of Myself part-11"
• "Song of Myself part-17"
• "Song of Myself part-19"
• "Song of Myself part-21"
• "Song of Myself part-31"
• "Song of Myself part-44"
• "Song of Myself part-46"
• "Song of Myself part-48"
• "Song of Myself part-52"
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" 18.5 mins.
  part1, part2, part3, part4, part5