Classic Stories Summarized
7-10 minute audio summaries of classic literature you didn't have the time or attention span to read :-)
Classic Stories Summarized
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Antigone by Sophocles
Sophocles’ Antigone, first performed in Athens around 441 BCE at the City Dionysia, is a tragedy by the Athenian playwright Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) and the earliest of his three surviving Theban plays in order of composition, though...
Beowulf
Beowulf is an anonymous Old English epic of about 3,182 lines, preserved in a single damaged manuscript (the Nowell Codex, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.xv) copied around the year 1000, though the poem itself was likely composed earlier, m...
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957 as a long philosophical novel set in a deteriorating near-future United States, where expanding government controls, “need” as a moral claim, and the punishment of ability are collapsing industry...