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- Angelou, Maya — On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) — YouTube
- Angelou, Maya — Phenomenal Woman — YouTube
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- Anonymous — Beowulf — Free iTunes — Free MP3s — Reading by Seamus Heaney
- Free eBook available here.
- Find version read by Orson Welles
- Another version by Richard Burton
- Listen to reading by TS Eliot — YouTube
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- Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins — Stream
- Amis, Martin — “Phantom of the Opera”
- Aristotle — Poetics (MP3 download)
- Aristotle — Politics (MP3 download full zip file)
- Aristotle —Physics
- Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) — Spotify
- Augustine, Saint — City of God (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles — History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles — History of the United States, Volume 2(full zip file)
- Beard, Charles — History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles — History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)
- Berger, John — Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)
- Berkeley, George — A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)
- Burke, Edmund — A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)
- Burke, Edmund — Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)
- Burroughs, William S. — Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)
- Burroughs, William S. — Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)
- Camus, Albert — Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)
- Camus, Albert — The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) — YouTube
- Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) — YouTube
- Campbell, Joseph — 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures — Spotify
- Carroll, Lewis — Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)
- Carroll, Lewis — The Game of Logic (Free MP3)
- Channing, Edward — A Short History of the United States (full zip file)
- Chomsky, Noam — 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)
- Confucius — The Sayings of Confucius (MP3 full zip file download)
- Darwin, Charles — On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)
- Free eBook available here.
- Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)
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