Writers are people with florid imaginations and passionate inner lives. They channel this down into squiggly symbols called words ... and onto thin sheets of crushed tree pulp so that...
You the reader, can scan the paper and blow open your mind and imagination to let in the vast inner world of the writer.
Hearing the words of the author may just be as powerful a form of communication as looking at words.
(Do you think watching a film about a novel is as goos as reading it or listening to the writer's original words?)
In this activity, you will listen to audio excerpts from several terrific writers. The idea is to find an author who "speaks to you". And to find a books by that author for your novel or short story study.
LISTEN TO CLASSIC NOVELS and STORIES; open up another window and read along onscreen or with your paper version from the library.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn read along
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain read along about the author
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll read along
Don Quixote, Volume 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra read along
Dorothy and the Wizard by L. Frank Baum read along
Elephant's Child, The by Rudyard Kipling read along
Emma by Jane Austen read along
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad another version read along
Heidi by Johanna Spyri read along
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain read along
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells read along
King Solomon's Mines by H. R. Haggard read along
Notes from the Underground by F. Dostoevsky read along
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde read along
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan read along
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett read along
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens read along
Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson read along
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame read along
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton read along
Short Stories
A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce read along
Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe read along
Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe read along
Children of the Zodiac by Rudyard Kipling read along
The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant read along
Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry read along
Gift of the Magi, The by O. Henry read along
Happy Prince, The by Oscar Wilde read along
Monkey's Paw, The by W.W. Jacobs read along
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson read along
Nice people by Henry Cuyler Bunner read along
Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe read along
Telltale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe read along
Typee by Herman Melville read along
