Great Literary Works

Here, for the first time, we are publishing four great classics in one place—for your listening and learning pleasure. We have called this library The Ultimate Personal Power Classics Library because each of these classics features a specific aspect or piece of what comprises personal power, confidence and influence, that when these pieces are collected together, comprise the “whole picture” of an individual who is acknowledged as one of great overall power, confidence and influence.

If you like to write—whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do this! I might as well give up." But if there's one thing every great author has in common, it's this: they've all written some hot garbage. Revisionaries takes you on an engrossing tour through the discarded drafts, false starts, and abandoned projects of influential writers. In the process, it dismantles some of our most deeply held—and most suffocating—ideas about what it takes to produce great creative work.

From ancient epics to modern novels, words have always shaped the way we see ourselves and the world around us. 100 Writers Who Changed the World is a sweeping journey through the lives and works of the authors whose ideas, stories, and visions transformed history. Spanning 3,000 years of literature—from Homer’s Iliad to Isabel Allende’s magical family sagas—this book offers vivid portraits of poets, novelists, essayists, and storytellers who captured the human condition and reshaped culture. Each chapter explores not only the masterpieces they created, but also the impact they left...

Playing three roles with verve, Philip Roth gives a hilariously comic performance of two old men living in a cheap rooming house who pay a visit to a diffident graduate student to ask a convoluted and unusual favor.