Arnold Weinstein Audio Books

Accessing the great American books - the classics - is a unique way of understanding the history of this country and of adding to our own personal estate of literary wealth.

This course examines the three great forms of literary expression—drama, poetry, and narrative—in a chronological introduction to the major texts of Western culture, from antiquity onward.

This course offers an in-depth look at 11 carefully selected figures: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo.

Classic Novels is your invitation to the dazzling, surprising, and deeply moving worlds revealed through these great works. You'll move beyond what is often offered in literary courses: plot synopses, anecdotes, facts about where and when a novel was written.

This course explores artists' complex renderings of the humanity of city life from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces....