Literary Collections

In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning...

This book is the first handbook about being contemporary and personal diary written by me...

This book is the second handbook-an account of contemporary life and personal diary writt...

This diary is the third book written by me, an exploration of urban and suburban environm...

Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal o...

Russell Banks, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Isay are among those heard on Chatting Up a Sto...

Plato's dialogue in the Symposium, which has as its topic the subject of love, explores t...

At his seventieth birthday party, Mark Twain delivered this delightful retrospective of h...

When prompted to give a speech at his sixty-seventh birthday party, Mark Twain was at no ...

This Mark Twain speech is not the origin of his infamous quote. Instead, Twain delivered ...

It may seem odd that Mark Twain delivered a 4th of July speech in London in 1907. Aside f...

As humans, we often wonder about our heroes’ (and, perhaps, our enemies’) opi...

Mark Twain delivered this humorous speech on taxation and morality at the Tuskegee Instit...

A master of wit and wry humor on the page, Mark Twain also gained acclaim as a speaker th...

“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fie...

Sambo is a South Indian boy who lives with his father and mother, named Black Jumbo and B...

This engaging collection of essays was originally published in The Daily Post Athenian ne...

This Audiobook of William Blake's poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani.A Divi...

This Audiobook of Christina Rossetti's poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani.A...

This Audiobook of William Morris poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani.A Death...

This Audiobook of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poems has the following poems rendered by Rama...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry...

Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in the vast city of Calcutta. His Brahman family was...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian...

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter...

Charles Lamb's poems are unabashedly sentimental, and perhaps for this reason he is still...

John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byro...

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped...

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, econ...

A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writingsRichard Wagamese, one ...

What's that? You would love to be well-read and know so much more about all kinds of lite...

This book is a collection of 20 entertaining and culturally interesting Japanese short st...

Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Napoleon Hill are some of the most notable name...

Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same pa...

Is it social programming, status or self hate that's driving black males into the arms of...

This collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children’s author A. A. M...

Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, single parenthood, rootlessness, drinkin...

An incisive and comprehensive view of India’s legal process and its key issuesIndia...

William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he ea...

Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and...

In this delightful collection; Ruskin Bond introduces us to the Dehradun he knows intimat...

In his early twenties now, Rusty finally leaves Dehra and books a passage to England, dre...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike comments on how writing fiction can push the wr...

Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and ...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, historian Arnold Toynbee describes how relat...

Professor and attorney Michael Mullane says that we are all protected by and accountable ...

Elizabeth Deutsch Earle reflects on her original This I Believe Essay, first aired in the...

Critic, journalist, novelist, and feminist Rebecca West describes her discovery that huma...

In her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series, novelist Isabelle Allende reflects on...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, musical librettist and producer Oscar Hammer...