Experience how listening to literature being read can bring it to life! Listen to these richly illustrated concise ten-minute audio “lectures” narrated by Longman’s textbook authors to help you connect with authors and works. Each lecture is divded into three segment, and each segment concludes with Questions for Thinking and Writing to help you analyze and reflect on what you have heard.
Three lectures are available to view in this demo:
| James Baldwin | Sonny’s Blues |
| Toni Cade Bambera | The Lesson |
| Elizabeth Bishop | One Art |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | The Mother |
| Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky |
| Raymond Carver | Cathedral |
| Kate Chopin | Désirée's Baby |
| Kate Chopin | The Storm |
| Kate Chopin | The Story of an Hour |
| Billy Collins | The Names |
| Robert Frost | Acquainted with the Night |
| Robert Frost | Mending Wall |
| Robert Frost | The Pasture |
| Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Young Goodman Brown |
| Seamus Heaney | Digging |
| Langston Hughes | The Weary Blues |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Sweat |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll’s House |
| James Joyce | Araby |
| John Keats | Bright star! |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | Shiloh |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Love Is Not All |
| Joyce Carol Oates | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried |
| Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| Wilfred Owen | Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Sylvia Plath | Lady Lazarus |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Ligeia |
| Edward Arlington Robinson | Richard Cory |
| Mary Jo Salter | Welcome to Hiroshima |
| William Shakespeare | The Theme of Love in Sonnets |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare | Sonnet 73 |
| Sophocles | Oedipus the King |
| Alice Walker | Everyday Use |
| Eudora Welty | Why I Live at the P.O. |
| William Butler Yeats | The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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