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  • Published: Sep 11, 08
    THE STRENGTH OF GOD, concerning Reverend Curtis HartmanThe distracted man trembled from head to foot, partly from cold, partly from the struggle in which he was engaged. Hours passed and a fever assailed his body. His throat began to hurt and his teeth chattered. His feet on the study floor felt like two cakes of [...]
     
  • Published: Sep 8, 08
    TANDY, concerning Tandy Hard “I came here to quit drinking,” he said, and tears began to run down his cheeks. He did not look at Tom Hard, but leaned forward and stared into the darkness as though seeing a vision. “I ran away to the country to be cured, but I am not cured. [...]
     
  • Published: Sep 6, 08
    Annabel Lee is the last complete poem composed by American author and poet Edgar Allen Poe. Like many of Poe’s poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels [...]
     
  • Published: Sep 5, 08
    In Winesburg, Seth Richmond was called the “deep one.”  ”He’s like his father,” men said as he went through the streets. “He’ll break out some of these days. You wait and see.”Download audio file (winesburg11.mp3) Access Great Books Audio on your mobile athttp://my.podcast.com/greatbooksaudio/mobile/internet advertising
     
  • Published: Sep 2, 08
    RESPECTABILITY, concerning Wash WilliamsWash Williams, the telegraph operator of Winesburg, was the ugliest thing in town. His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble. He was dirty. Everything about him was unclean. Even the whites of his eyes looked soiled. I go too fast. Not everything about Wash was unclean. He took care [...]
     
  • Published: Sep 1, 08
    ADVENTURE, concerning Alice Hindman As she stood on the little grass plot before the house and felt the cold rain on her body a mad desire to run naked through the streets took possession of her.Download audio file (winesburg9.mp3) Access Great Books Audio on your mobile at http://my.podcast.com/greatbooksaudio/mobile/internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 29, 08
    The Daffodils (also known as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) is an 1804 poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by a walk during which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a long belt of daffodils. The memory of the daffodils is etched in the speaker’s mind and soul to be cherished [...]
     
  • Published: Aug 28, 08
    A MAN OF IDEAS, concerning Joe Welling.The Winesburg baseball team, under his management, was winning game after game, and the town had come to respect him. Sensing a tragedy, they waited, laughing nervously. Download audio file (winesburg8.mp3) Access Great Books Audio on your mobile at http://my.podcast.com/greatbooksaudio/mobile/ internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 26, 08
     TERROR, concerning David Hardy.When David Hardy was a tall boy of fifteen, he, like his mother, had an adventure that changed the whole current of his life and sent him out of his quiet corner into the world. Download audio file (winesburg7-4.mp3) Access Great Books Audio on your mobile at http://my.podcast.com/greatbooksaudio/mobile/internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 25, 08
    SURRENDER, concerning Louise BentleyThe young man took Mary Hardy into his arms and kissed her. When she struggled and laughed, he but held her more tightly. For an hour the contest between them went on and then they went back into the parlor and Louise escaped up the stairs.Download audio file (winesburg7-3.mp3)  Access Great Books [...]
     
  • Published: Aug 19, 08
    Louise turned and went out of the room, leaving the two men to sit in embarrassed silence. As very often happened she stayed in her room for days. Even when the boy’s clothes were packed and he was taken away she did not appear.Download audio file (winesburg7-2.mp3) internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 18, 08
    When his father, who was old and twisted with toil,made over to him the ownership of the farm and seemed content to creep away to a corner and wait for death,he shrugged his shoulders and dismissed the old man from his mind. Download audio file (winesburg7.mp3) internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 16, 08
    NOBODY KNOWS, concerning Louise Trunnion ”Louise! Oh, Louise!” he called. The cry stuck in his throat. His voice became a hoarse whisper.Download audio file (winesburg6.mp3) internet advertising
     
  • Published: Aug 15, 08
    Auguries of Innocence is a poem written by William Blake in 1803 (but not published until 1863). It contains a series of paradoxes which speak of innocence juxtaposed with evil and corruption. The poem is 132 lines and has been published with and without breaks that divide the poem into stanzas.The lines “Some are born [...]
     
  • Published: Aug 14, 08
    THE PHILOSOPHER, concerning Doctor ParcivalDoctor Parcival shook with fright. “I have a presentiment,” he declared emphatically. “It may be that what I am talking about will not occur this morning. It may be put off until tonight but I will be hanged. Everyone will get excited. I will be hanged to a lamp-post on Main [...]