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.

What do you do with the strange, sharp, beautiful burden of being alive? In I Didn’t Want To Create a New Sadness, Joseph Santiago offers a compelling collection of short stories that move through sorrow, memory, longing, identity, humor, and the strange emotional weather of modern life. These stories do not simply entertain—they linger, question, unsettle, and illuminate. Across intimate reflections, uncanny encounters, and deeply human moments, Santiago explores what it means to carry grief, wrestle with change, laugh in the middle of pain, and keep searching for meaning in a world ...

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.

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.