Featured Great Literature

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) "The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived."  Arthur C. Clarke Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward […]

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he […]

Featured Great Literature Mon-Fri @ 7:00am with replays @ 3:00pm and overnight @ 2:00am (Tues-Sat) Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: a ship runs aground on the shores of Whitby, its crew vanished; beautiful Lucy Westenra […]

Featured Great Literature Monday-Friday @ 7am with replays @ 3:00pm and 2:00am (overnight) “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ― Henry David Thoreau, WaldenWalden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course […]

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:00am – 3:00am "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..."   With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband […]

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am | 3pm – 4pm (replay)  |2-3am (replay) Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear […]

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:30am – 3:30am   Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man’s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape.Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, […]

Featured Great Literature Monday – Friday @ 7am-8am / 3pm – 4pm / 2:30am – 3:30am NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.A “majestic, moving novel ... an instant classic, a book that will be […]