Sunday, February 27, 2011

Free Audio Books from LearnoutLoud.com

If you are looking for free audio resources to use in your classes, Try out lookoutloud.com


"LearnOutLoud.com has scoured the Internet to bring you over 3000 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other great free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online."


Here are some of their offerings in the Free Literature section. With many more on access to stream or to download.

 
1.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download 

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.
 
2.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download 

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history.
 
3.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Available on: Audio Download | Podcast 

The Scarlet Letter is a novel published in 1850 and written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
 
4.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Audio Download 

The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period.
 
5.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer
Available on: Audio Download 

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer.

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