Audio Literature Odyssey

  1. O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman2015/02/04

    This poem is an elegy, or a mourning poem, honoring the death of the 16th American president Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated on April 14, 1865.

    Recording Copyright © 2015 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  2. The Woman’s Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood2014/12/11

    A woman interested in psychical research spends a night in a haunted London house. She experiences far more than she bargained for when she meets the mysterious occupant. As the night wears on, the line between the living and the dead becomes blurred.

    Recording Copyright © 2013 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  3. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe2013/11/03

    The narrator mourns the loss of a woman he dearly loved. He believes that envious angels took his love from him, but he will not allow death to part them.

    Recording Copyright © 2013 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  4. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2011/03/29
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  5. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde2011/03/29
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  6. The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton2011/03/29

    When a woman dies, the Spirit of Life rewards her with the opportunity to spend all of eternity with her true soul mate (something she did not experience in life). Trouble is, she still feels an allegiance to her awkward husband alive on earth who believed her to be his soul mate. Which man will she choose?

    Recording Copyright © 2006 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  7. The Lady With the Dog by Anton Chekhov2011/03/29
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  8. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe2011/03/29

    The old man is kind, but he has a vulture eye and his heart beats like a watch enveloped in cotton. It is too much for the narrator to bear, whose senses are acute. No, the old man must die. Yet, will death stop the beating heart, or will it never cease?

    Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  9. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe2011/03/29
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  10. The Poetry of Emily Dickinson2011/03/29
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  11. To Hope by John Keats2011/03/29

    The poet solicits Hope to turn his dark days into brighter ones.

    Recording Copyright © 2010 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  12. Six Sonnets by Various Authors2011/03/29

    This episode contains sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

    Recording Copyright © 2009 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  13. Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2011/03/29

    A PSALM OF LIFE

    THE BUILDERS

    SOMETHING LEFT UNDONE

    MOONLIGHT

    Recording Copyright ©2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  14. The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson2011/03/29

    Two swindlers convince a vain emperor that only fools and officials not fit for their posts cannot see the fabric they weave. No one wants to admit they see nothing. The emperor's new suit makes more than a fashion statement.

    Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (www.nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  15. The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson2011/03/29
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  16. To Mary, On Receiving Her Picture by Byron2011/03/29

    Byron narrates a poem celebrating the beauty of a woman called Mary whose picture he will cherish forever, as it inspires him to live and feel good, when times are difficult; and he states that it will comfort him when he dies gazing at it.

    Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  17. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll2011/03/29

    Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem from the novel Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll in 1872. It describes the slaying of a monster called the Jabberwock. Carroll made up the more eccentric words. You can learn more about the poem at Wikipedia.

    Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  18. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams2011/03/29
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  19. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare2011/03/29

    The narrator is comparing someone he knows intimately with the season of summer. To him, the most pleasant season is not as pleasant as this person who will last an eternity and will never die, because he/she will live forever in the lines of this sonnet.

    Recording Copyright © 2006 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
  20. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare2011/03/29

    The narrator of Sonnet 116 tells us that love lasts forever and never changes, even when the lovers change themselves.

    Recording Copyright © 2007 Nikolle Doolin (http://nikolledoolin.com/alo)
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