Classics - In Depth Audios

"The Classics" come alive with images, videos, maps, documents and ... dramatization. Look, listen and experience these "old" stories in a new, 21st-century way.

Dostoevsky worked on Notes from Underground in 1863.

Scholars believe the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - which he called "Ozymandias" - was inspired by a statue of the young Ramesses I...

During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.

During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.

Before he was known as Lord Byron, the still-famous poet was called George Gordon.

Alfred Noyes - a British poet born in 1880, who was extremely popular during his lifetime - wrote a lyrical story about a doomed highwayman and Bess (...

William Butler (W.B.) Yeats wrote the poem which consistently tops the list of Ireland's favorite poems.

Although he made very little money from this work, Edgar Allan Poe became famous after he wrote - and published - "The Raven.

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