Literature Out Loud

a collection of William Shakespeare's Sonnets with audio narration

Short stories, poems and novels with complete text audio narration

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Literature Out Loud
Short Stories
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Alyosha the Pot
by Leo Tolstoy
An Attempt At Reform
by August Strindberg
Briar Rose
by The Brothers Grimm
A Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allen Poe
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain
The Champion of The Weather
by O. Henry
The Cop and The Anthem
by O.Henry
The Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson
Denis
by Guy de Maupassant
Devil's Little Brother-In-Law
by Parker Fillmore
The Diamond Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
The Dog and the Sparrow
by The Brothers Grimm
Dusk
by Saki - H.H. Munro
An Encounter with an Interviewer
by Mark Twain
Faithful John
by The Brothers Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife
by The Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince or Iron Heinrich
by The Brothers Grimm
The Gift of The Magi
by O. Henry
A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg
by Leo Tolstoy
The Golden Bird
by The Brothers Grimm
The Hand
by Guy de Maupassant
Hans in Luck
by The Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
by The Brothers Grimm
A Happy Ending
by Anton Chekhov
His First Flight
by Liam O'Flaherty
I Am A Champion
by Coach Flowers
The Imp and the Crust
by Leo Tolstoy
Jorinda and Jorindel
by The Brothers Grimm
King Midas' Ears
by Jeanie Lang
King Midas' Golden Touch
by Jeanie Lang
The Lady or The Tiger
by Frank Stockton
The Little Match Girl
by Hans Christian Anderson
The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
Luke 1-20
Mark Twain and the Mormons
Minds in Ferment
by Anton Chekhov
Misery
by Anton Chekhov
The Mouse
by Saki
The Night Before Thanksgiving
by Sara Orne Jewett
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose Bierce
The Office Bore
by Mark Twain
Old Sultan
by The Brothers Grimm
The Other Wise Man
by Henry van Dyke
Overreached
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
a selection from The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe
Pygmalion
by Jeanie Lang
The Ransom of Red Chief
by O. Henry / William Sydney Porter
The Red-headed League
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Romance of a Busy Broker
by O. Henry / William Sydney Porter
Romeo and Julia
by August Strindberg
The Robber Bridegroom
by The Brothers Grimm
A Scandal in Bohemia
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by James Thurber
The Straw, the Coal and the Bean
by The Brothers Grimm
A Technical Error
by O. Henry
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Thanksgiving Proclamation
by Abraham Lincoln
Three and One are One
by Ambrose Bierce
Three Golden Hairs
by Parker Fillmore
Three Letters From Teddy
by Elizabeth Silence Baynard
To Raise Poultry
by Mark Twain
The Travelling Musicians
by The Brothers Grimm
Twelve Dancing Princesses
by The Brothers Grimm
Two Thanksgiving Gentlemen with introduction
by O. Henry / William Sydney Porter
Two Thanksgiving Gentlemen without introduction
by O. Henry / William Sydney Porter
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
We Are All Insane
by Mark Twain
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
by The Brothers Grimm
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
by Francis P. Church

Dane Allred's

The Plodder's Mile

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Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-six point two

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Literature Out Loud
Poems
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Acceptance
by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking
by Robert Frost
The Aged Aged Man
by Lewis Carroll
A Nation's Strength
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
by Walt Whitman
August 29th, 1859
by Oliver Wendall Holmes
The Bait
by John Donne
Birches
by Robert Frost
The Blind Men and The Elephant
by John Godfrey Saxe
Cheerfulness Taught By Reason
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Chicago
by Carl Sandburg
Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
by William Wordsworth
Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
Death Be Not Proud
by John Donne
Dulce Decorum Est
by Wilford Owen
Experience is the Angled Road
by Emily Dickenson
Food in Travel
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For Whom The Bell Tolls
by John Donne
Gunga Din
by Rudyard Kipling
High Flight
by John Gillespie McGee
How Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If
by Rudyard Kipling
If You Forget Me
by Pablo Neruda
I heard a fly buzz when I died
by Emily Dickenson
The Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
The Last Bargain
by Rabindranath Tagore
Let It Go
by e.e. cummings
The Listeners
by Walter de la Mare
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T.S. Eliot
Love's Growth
by John Donne
Mending Wall
by Robert Frost
O Captain, My Captain
by Walt Whitman
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Patience Taught By Nature
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
Ring Out Wild Bells
by Alfred Tennyson
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Song of Man 25
by Khalil Gibran
Sonnet 14
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She Walks in Beauty
by Lord Byron
The Seven Ages of Man
by William Shakespeare
Sunrise on the Hills
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This World is Not Conclusion
by Emily Dickenson
The Touch of the Master's Hand
by Myra Brooks Welch
Twas the Night Before Christmas
by Clement Moore
When The Frost Is On The Punkin
by John Whitcomb Riley
You Are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Dane Allred

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Airport Excitement

Birthday Bash

Blithe Skip

Burned Rice Twice

Clock Time

Craft Services

Defender

Dents in the Van

Evil Banker Audition

Flight to the Ground

Floor It

Foot Race

Forgetting My Anniversary

Harmonious Match

In Love With Being Alive

It’s Hot In Texas

Jerry Springer Hair

Junk Food Junkie

Lost Toenail

Love is Green

My Favorite Christmas

Omelets In Cincinnati

Running for Rolls

Snow Day

Spare Change

They’re Not Mad At Us

Three Car Pileup

Time Travel

Toy Gremlins

Tracker Towing

Unharmonious Match

Windsurfing

Writing Your Own Recommendation

Dane Allred's Partly-Colored Dream Coat

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Acceptance

Accepting Difference

Advanced Placement

Artificial Me

The Benjamins

Caesarians

Cowed

Daily Drill

Deadline Smedline

Differently Similar

Double Prepration

Dream the Dream

The Emotional Rollercoaster

Glorious Dreams

Incongruous

Jumping Jester

A Little Too Much Honesty

Marry Me

Much Too Much

Practicing Patience

Proclaim Thanks

A Quick Five Hundred

Ready or Not

Real Champions

Rebirth

Relaxing

A Rose is a Rose

Same Old Same Old

Strength Through Stress

Stress Dance

Too Much Money

United We Stand

Value Meal

Who is the Master?


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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

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Sonnet One
Sonnet Two
Sonnet Three
Sonnet Four
Sonnet Five
Sonnet Six
Sonnet Seven
Sonnet Eight
Sonnet Nine
Sonnet Ten


Sonnet Eleven
Sonnet Twelve
Sonnet Thirteen
Sonnet Fourteen
Sonnet Fifteen
Sonnet Sixteen
Sonnet Seventeen
Sonnet Eighteen
Sonnet Nineteen


Sonnet Twenty
Sonnet Twenty-one
Sonnet Twenty-two
Sonnet Twenty-three
Sonnet Twenty-four
Sonnet Twenty-five
Sonnet Twenty-six
Sonnet Twenty-seven
Sonnet Twenty-eight
Sonnet Twenty-nine


Sonnet Thirty
Sonnet Thirty-one
Sonnet Thirty-two
Sonnet Thirty-three
Sonnet Thirty-four
Sonnet Thirty-five
Sonnet Thirty-six
Sonnet Thirty-seven
Sonnet Thirty-eight
Sonnet Thirty-nine


Sonnet Forty
Sonnet Forty-one
Sonnet Forty-two
Sonnet Forty-three
Sonnet Forty-four
Sonnet Forty-five
Sonnet Forty-six
Sonnet Forty-seven
Sonnet Forty-eight
Sonnet Forty-nine


Sonnet Fifty
Sonnet Fifty-one
Sonnet Fifty-two
Sonnet Fifty-three
Sonnet Fifty-four
Sonnet Fifty-five
Sonnet Fifty-six
Sonnet Fifty-seven
Sonnet Fifty-eight
Sonnet Fifty-nine


Sonnet Sixty
Sonnet Sixty-one
Sonnet Sixty-two
Sonnet Sixty-three
Sonnet Sixty-four
Sonnet Sixty-five
Sonnet Sixty-six
Sonnet Sixty-seven
Sonnet Sixty-eight
Sonnet Sixty-nine


Sonnet Seventy
Sonnet Seventy-one
Sonnet Seventy-two
Sonnet Seventy-three
Sonnet Seventy-four
Sonnet Seventy-five
Sonnet Seventy-six
Sonnet Seventy-seven
Sonnet Seventy-eight
Sonnet Seventy-nine


Sonnet Eighty
Sonnet Eighty-one
Sonnet Eighty-two
Sonnet Eighty-three
Sonnet Eighty-four
Sonnet Eighty-five
Sonnet Eighty-six
Sonnet Eighty-seven
Sonnet Eighty-eight
Sonnet Eighty-nine


Sonnet Ninety
Sonnet Ninety-one
Sonnet Ninety-two
Sonnet Ninety-three
Sonnet Ninety-four
Sonnet Ninety-five
Sonnet Ninety-six
Sonnet Ninety-seven
Sonnet Ninety-eight
Sonnet Ninety-nine


Sonnet One hundred
Sonnet One hundred and one
Sonnet One hundred and two
Sonnet One hundred and three
Sonnet One hundred and four
Sonnet One hundred and five
Sonnet One hundred and six
Sonnet One hundred and seven
Sonnet One hundred and eight
Sonnet One hundred and nine


Sonnet One hundred and ten
Sonnet One hundred and eleven
Sonnet One hundred and twelve
Sonnet One hundred and thirteen
Sonnet One hundred and fourteen
Sonnet One hundred and fifteen
Sonnet One hundred and sixteen
Sonnet One hundred and seventeen
Sonnet One hundred and eighteen
Sonnet One hundred and nineteen


Sonnet One hundred and twenty
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-one
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-two
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-three
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-four
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-five
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-six
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-seven
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-eight
Sonnet One hundred and twenty-nine


Sonnet One hundred and thirty
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-one
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-two
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-three
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-four
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-five
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-six
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-seven
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-eight
Sonnet One hundred and thirty-nine


Sonnet One hundred and forty
Sonnet One hundred and forty-one
Sonnet One hundred and forty-two
Sonnet One hundred and forty-three
Sonnet One hundred and forty-four
Sonnet One hundred and forty-five
Sonnet One hundred and forty-six
Sonnet One hundred and forty-seven
Sonnet One hundred and forty-eight
Sonnet One hundred and forty-nine


Sonnet One hundred and fifty
Sonnet One hundred and fifty-one
Sonnet One hundred and fifty-two
Sonnet One hundred and fifty-three
Sonnet One hundred and fifty-four

Dane Allred's

World of Hurt

Dane Allred examines some of the ways he has injured himself, and others.

An Adventure into Accident

Automotive Repair

Bicycle Crashes

Broken and Bloody

Broken Leg

Car Wash -- Part One

Car Wash -- Part Two

Clean The Screen

An Evaluation of English

Film Follies

Gasoline Energy

Head Over Heels

High-ho Silver

More Hiking Stupidity

Motorcycle Mania

Needlephobia

Running Man

St. George Groanings

Swan Dive

Three Kinds of Buzzing Insects

Wandering In Diapers

Wendover Wanderings

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Poetry and other works by Dane Allred

The Atonement
Bargain
Bright Space - a collection of contemplations
Broken Humor - a limerick
Christmas Symbols
Colorblind - a limerick
Compassion Nut
Crossed Wires
Everest
Friend or Foe - a limerick
Giving Up or Giving In - a limerick
Harvey Humdinger
Help Thou Us Be Like Thee
Increase - a limerick
I Love Therefore I Am
Jesus is the Christ
Kids - a limerick
Like Thee
Love's Gentle Rain
Missing You
My Savior
Negotiations - a limerick
The Next Corner
One Life
Prayer of Thanks
Rat Race
Roads - a limerick
Quickness of Movement - a limerick
The Sacrament
Self-Limitation - a limerick
Silly Old Nog
Sprung
Suspense
Tension
Thy Holy Face
Together
True Riches
Us Just Is
Volatility - A limerick
Ultimatums - A limerick
Wandering - a limerick
Yearn and Learn - a limerick

Character Central

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Gandhi
Winston Churchill
W.C. Fields, Forrest Gump and Leo
John Wayne

Other writing

The Lion and the Mouse

MT Noggin

MT Noggin's Snow-Stoplight-Airports and Valentine's Day

MT Noggin's Cookie Conspiracy

MT Noggin's Drivin' in a Circle Way Too Fast

MT Noggin's Educational Renewal Conference

MT Noggin's Leap Day

MT Noggin's Rantings and Ravings

MT Noggin's Road Rage and Restaurant Rage

MT Noggin's Same But Different

MT Noggin's The Stupid Tax

Interviews

Joseph Interviews

Big River Interviews

More Big River Interviews

Even More Big River Interviews

Elizabeth's More Big River Interviews

Happy Birthday to Rudy's Future Ex-wife

Wilford Woodruff Sermon

Abundance

What is Abundance?

My Best Self

Make A Positive Contribution

Jonathan Swift quote

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

Stave One

Stave Two

Stave Three

Stave Four

Complete piece

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle



The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Man with the Twisted Lip

The Red-Headed League

A Scandal in Bohemia

Biography Out Loud

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Anton Chekhov

Robert Frost

O. Henry / William Sydney Porter

Guy de Maupassant

Wilford Owen

Edgar Allan Poe

Leo Tolstoy

Mark Twain

Walt Whitman

Bright Space

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Beginnings

Betterment

Challenges

Circling Spheres

Compassion

Crossroads

Diversity

The Illusion of One

Keys

Light

Nature

Obstacles

Our Journey

Pain and Suffering

Past Connection

Potential

Proficiency

Sharing

Strength

Suspense

Tension

Together Again

Ultimatum

Unity

Value

Walls

Work

You and I

Yesterday

Zeniths