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And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)

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The beloved and best-selling author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings reads aloud from her third book of verse. She not only gives life to many of her most cherished poems, but she also presents personal introductions to several favorites, including "One More Round", "Woman Work", and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me".

Author:

Maya Angelou

Grade Level:

Middle

Length:

00:23

And Still I Rise (Unabridged Selections)

Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged)

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The Marlowe Society performs an unabridged version of Shakespeare's tragedy featuring Romeo and Juliet, whose untimely deaths unite their feuding families.

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

High

Length:

02:48

The Great Gatsby (Unabridged)

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder". It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated, and studied 20th-century works of American fiction.

Author:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1070L

Length:

04:44

Romeo & Juliet (1978)

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Considered the greatest love story of all time and a bona fide "hit" for over 400 years, Romeo & Juliet is full of passion and oration, Shakespeare's most popular tragedy, it expresses love and death better perhaps, than any work in the English language.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

02:47