This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. ”The Great Lawsuit” (linked full text) appeared as an essay in The Dial (#4) in 1843, edited by Fuller’s friend in Transcendentalism and epistolary exchange Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here is the audio file in 3 [...]
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Audio Recording of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman. (18:48) *** I wander all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet . . . . swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers; Wandering and confused . . . . lost to [...]
Audio Recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself”
Audio recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself” by Doug Storm (1:49:42) *** Do I contradict myself? Very well then . . . . I contradict myself; I am large . . . . I contain multitudes. I concentrate toward them that are nigh . . . . I wait on the door-slab. Who has [...]
An Audio Recording of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (42:16)
An Audio Recording of “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
An audio recording by Doug Storm of “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (32:37)
Audio Recording of “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Audio recording by Doug Storm of Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” (44:56)
from Nature by Emerson
An audio recording by Doug Storm from Emerson’s Nature. (10:52) Introduction: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should [...]
from “Self-Reliance” by Emerson
An audio recording by Doug Storm of the below selection from “Self-Reliance.” (13:24) from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too [...]
Letter III of Letters From an American Farmer
An audio recording by Doug Storm of a selection from Letters from an American Farmer by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur. – from Letters from an Amercian Farmer–from Letter III. (duration approximately 11 minutes) What is an American. I WISH I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present themselves [...]
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
An audio recording by Doug Storm of selections of The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin. (duration approximately 18 minutes) from Leaving Boston from Arrival in Philadelphia from Arriving at Moral Perfection *** from Leaving Boston At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that [...]
