Art audiobooks

TEN: The decade that changed my future

By: Rylan Clark

Narrated by: Bernice Cole, Claire Richards, Jayne Clark, Lin...

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Funny and outspoken, Rylan is one of the UK's most-loved presenters and a true household name. Rylan first emerged on our screens in September 2012 and in the ten years since then has become a one-of-a-kind national treasure.

In this brand-new memoir, Rylan invites us deeper into his world to reflect on all... Read more

Ghost Channels

By: Amy Lawrence

Narrated by: Kate Zane

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, over six dozen documentary-style series dealing with paranormal subject matter premiered on television in the United States. Combining the stylistic traits of horror with earnest accounts of what are claimed to... Read more

Kiki Man Ray

By: Mark Braude

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir—featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway—made front-page news in France and was... Read more

History by HBO

By: Rebecca Weeks

Narrated by: PJ Wood

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at the forefront of these changes, leading the way for many network, cable, and streaming services into the "post-network" era. Despite this, most scholarship... Read more

Worth

By: Ann Champion Shaw

Narrated by: Ann Champion Shaw

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

WORTH: A Story of Favor and Forgiveness is a memoir about an African American woman that centers on a 1979 visit with Good Times actress Esther Rolle. Born into an upper middle class family in Orlando, Florida, Ann Champion experiences travel, gifts, and other benefits that come with her privileged lifestyle. After her parents' divorce, things... Read more

Supla - Um papito in love - Abridged

By: Supla

Narrated by: Supla

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Escritos com bom humor e o estilo peculiar, os textos são como conversas em mesas de bar, causos contados por aquele que viveu essas peripécias, num tom despojado e original. E todos são ilustrados por fotos: o registro visual de uma vida rock and roll! Neste minilivro, Papito narra histórias da sua vida amorosa. Read more

A Kiss for Cinderella (UNABRIDGED)

By: J. M. BARRIE

Narrated by: Steve Carpenter, James Fletcher, Phillip Griffi...

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This play does have Cinderella and a Godmother, Royalty, and glass slippers, but it takes place in WW1 and is certainly not your typical fairy tale! Produced on Broadway in 1916, it was made into a silent movie in 1925. Read more

The Letters of a Post-Impressionist (Unabridged)

By: Vincent Van Gogh

Narrated by: Ursula Webb, Andrew Gremo, James Litton & Summe...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of the following letters, some were addressed to his brother and the remainder to his friend E. Bernard. Read more

There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows (Unabridged)

By: Jack Gaver

Narrated by: Jeffrey Humes, Karri Cox, Gregory Cuellar & Bar...

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

There's Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp through the world of old-time radio comedy. It gives a brief history of the medium and brief but intimate accounts of some of the biggest acts from the 1930s and 1940s. Gaver and Stanley give insight on several luminaries from the days of vintage radio: Jack Benny, Fred Allen,... Read more

The Art of Bookbinding (Unabridged)

By: Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf

Narrated by: Amanda Spann, Connie Heyward, Mary Kass & Darli...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder and son of a bookbinder, made this second edition of his book to enlighten amateurs and tradesmen alike. The whole process of binding a book and the required equipment are carefully explained to the reader. Read more

Herrmann's Book of Magic (Unabridged)

By: Alexander Herrmann

Narrated by: Julie Glendening, Lisa Gilder, Patti Fitts & Ca...

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Black Art Fully Exposed. A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs, including a complete exposure of the black art. Read more

The Recording Angel (UNABRIDGED)

By: Edwin Arnold Brenholtz

Narrated by: Rose Lozoya, Julissa Harrington, Robert Dong & ...

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The story's themes of economic inequality between producers and consumers, political collusion within the upper classes, and the loss of... Read more

Stamp Collecting as a Pastime (UNABRIDGED)

By: Edward J. Nankivell

Narrated by: Leah Spangler, Tom Gall, Brad Wedeking & Debra ...

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward J. Nankivell was an early stamp collector in England. In this book he describes the hobby of stamp collecting. He was the editor of the Philatelic Record and Stamp News. Read more

Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves (Unabridged)

By: Lillian Shearon

Narrated by: Kristi Hargett, John Ramirez, Dane Salem & Bria...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be practiced at home, and with success by anyone who will take the trouble to master the simple rules laid down in these pages: and it is in the hope that it will provide a basis for much innocent and inexpensive amusement and recreation round the tea-table at home, as well as... Read more

The Art of the Moving Picture (Unabridged)

By: Vachel LINDSAY

Narrated by: Benjamin Neely, Frances Carrasco, Marian Loque ...

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical and aesthetic properties were only starting to be understood. The highlight of the book might be... Read more

The Magistrate (UNABRIDGED)

By: Arthur Wing Pinero

Narrated by: Robert Rosenthal, Dorothy Sayman, Maria Tomlins...

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The success of “The Magistrate” was immediate, and the Court Theatre was crowded night after night for more than a year, the play being presented over 300 times. So prosperous was the run that there was no cessation during the Summer holiday season. This success, however, was not confined to London, for three companies were soon carrying the... Read more

The Squire (UNABRIDGED)

By: Arthur Wing Pinero

Narrated by: Jeremiah Smith, Richard Sanzotta, Matthew Meete...

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Then take a word of advice—cut yourself adrift from Squire Kate's apron strings. (Gilbert turns away) When my father, John Verity, died, and left his girl alone in the world, you helped me out of debt and difficulty; but all the skill on earth can never squeeze more than bread and butter out of this dear broken-down old place. (she rises) So go... Read more

The Practice and Science of Drawing (UNABRIDGED)

By: Harold Speed

Narrated by: Anna Binford, Mae Andaya, Herman Pedraza & Lewi...

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and proportion. Everything is pulled together in a chapter on portrait drawing, before the author gives hints on materials and procedure. This... Read more

The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (UNABRIDGED)

By: Clayton Hamilton

Narrated by: Lois Sweeney, Ardelle Whiteside, Nancy Hurley &...

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton concerning theatre & dramatic practices, and the criticism thereof, from an early 20th century perspective. Read more

Thoughts on Art and Life (UNABRIDGED)

By: Leonardo da Vinci

Narrated by: Walter Benford, May Drye, Diane Walker & Wanda ...

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. Read more

The Wonder-Working Magician (UNABRIDGED)

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Narrated by: Margaret Mccollum, Bradley Lamb, Nadia Jackson ...

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Wonderful Magician" is perhaps better known to poetical students in England from the spirited fragment Shelley has left us in his "Scenes from Calderon." The preoccupation of a subject by a great master throws immense difficulties in the way of any one who ventures to follow in the same path: but as Shelley allowed himself great licence in... Read more

Quality Street (UNABRIDGED)

By: J. M. BARRIE

Narrated by: Ashley Faulk, Mary Carson, Thomas Dodge & Jody ...

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Two sisters living on Quality Street set up and run a school for children after the local doctor heads off to fight Napoleon. Ten years later he returns, thinking that all the adventures have been his, and that the old life in Quality Street has waited, as in a sleep, to be resumed on the day of his return. Katharine Hepburn starred in a movie... Read more

Trelawny of the Wells (UNABRIDGED)

By: Arthur Wing Pinero

Narrated by: Christopher Winebarger, Mary Gray, Joshua Potee...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc. The star Rose Trelawny wants to leave the stage for love, but it is not an easy thing to fit into conventional society after a life onstage. And not easy to go back to the stage either. Read more

Don Garcia of Navarre, or the Jealous Prince (UNABRIDGED)

By: author

Narrated by: Eugene Burns, Cristobal Fuller, Daniel Farrell ...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing can be more unlike The Pretentious Young Ladies or Sganarelle than Molière's Don Garcia of Navarre. The Théâtre du Palais-Royal had opened on the 20th January, 1661, with The Love-Tiff and Sganarelle, but as the young wife of Louis XIV., Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV., King of Spain, had only lately arrived, and as a taste for the... Read more