Areas of Study

The core of any American Literature survey course, 1850–1926. Fifteen novels from Hawthorne’s Puritan guilt to Hemingway’s Lost Generation — the full arc of a distinctly American literary voice. Listen free on HearCandy.

Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante. These nine works are the foundation of Western literature — every subsequent writer read them, argued with them, and built on them. The core of any classical literature course. Listen to them all free with HearCandy.

In the second half of the 19th century, Russian literature produced a concentration of genius unmatched in any national tradition. These eight novels form the core of Russian literature courses worldwide. Listen free on HearCandy.

Four hundred years of writers saying what everyone else was too polite to say — and getting away with it by making you laugh first. The full tradition of literary satire, from Cervantes to Bierce. Listen free on HearCandy.