Essays audiobooks

Escultura del Siglo XX

By: Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Rollán & Tomás Campos

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

La agitación socioeconómica provoca una reacción escultórica contra los estilos anteriores dando lugar a un nuevo naturalismo que busca de nuevo su inspiración en el clasicismo renacentista. Rodin es el autor más representativo de este nuevo estilo, pero hay muchos otros autores, como se puede ver en esta breve colección que ahora les... Read more

Vanity Fair: November 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Scotland’s Jesus

By: Frankie Boyle

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her exploding brain. It's a funny book about the news, partly because it was decided that... Read more

English and Literature

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

The Art of Writing and the Gifts of Writers

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

The Church

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection: C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

How Did All This Happen?

By: John Bishop

Narrated by: John Bishop

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re a man of a certain age you’ll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car and over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea. With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop was no different when he... Read more

Heidelberg Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden der Stadt am Neckar. Heidelberg kann auf eine große Geschichte zurückblicken. Uve Teschner erzählt die schönsten Sagen. Eine Hörbuch-Reise in das sagenhaft Heidelbergen, mit der der Verlag die alte Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens aufgreift und sie mit dem modernen Medium Hörbuch verbindet. Read more

Egghead

By: Bo Burnham

Narrated by: Bo Burnham

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ

Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and... Read more

Ruhrgebiet Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit diesem Hörbuch, präsentiert von der WAZ und dem John Verlag gehen Sie auf eine sagenhafte Reise durch das Ruhrgebiet. Hören Sie die schönsten Sagen und Legenden aus Essen, Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen und vielen weiteren Orten des Ruhrgebietes. Der Pott hat einiges zu erzählen. Hören Sie folgende... Read more

Devoted

By: Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlikely Friendships meets Marley and Me. In this heartwarming book, author Rebecca Ascher-Walsh presents a collection of inspiring dog stories—dogs who comfort veterans, dogs who learn to surf, dogs who detect cancer, and dogs who save the day: each one is devoted. These thirty-eight uplifting dog stories showcase the most amazing dog rescues,... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

F**k

By: Rufus Lodge

Narrated by: Richard E Grant

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world’s favourite word. F, U, C and K – four letters that can cause outrage, scandal, embarrassment or instant relief if you hit your thumb with a hammer. In this wide-ranging and frequently hilarious history of the F-word, Rufus Lodge... Read more

Becoming Johnny Vegas

By: Johnny Vegas

Narrated by: Johnny Vegas

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

‘My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character. I’m often mistaken for one though. You might know him by another name. Johnny Vegas.’ From BBC Dickens adaptations to Benidorm and Ideal to the PG Tips ads, Johnny Vegas has become one of Britain's best-loved comic actors. But before he'd ever drunk... Read more

Lake Wobegon Family Reunion

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Here, for the first time ever, News from Lake Wobegon monologues from the entire history of “the little town on the edge of the prairie” are presented in one collection. From early fan... Read more

Sister Mother Husband Dog

By: Delia Ephron

Narrated by: Meg Ryan

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, writing, movies, and family. In “Sister,” she deftly captures the rivalry, mutual respect, and intimacy that made up her relationship with her older sister and frequent writing companion, Nora.... Read more

Aspects of Faith

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

The Christian in the World

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

The Search for God

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith... Read more

Generation of Swine

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.

Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune... Read more

This Other London

By: John Rogers

Narrated by: John Rogers & Russell Brand

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. Foreword written and read... Read more

Man Repeller

By: Leandra Medine

Narrated by: Leandra Medine

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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Silk parachute pants. A gold lamé jumpsuit. Ankle boots with fringe. Were these fashion-forward items sending men running in the opposite direction? Maybe, but Leandra Medine never cared.

Slipping into drop-crotch shorts and a boxed sequin blazer in the dressing room of Topshop in downtown Manhattan, a brokenhearted... Read more

Hollywood Said No!

By: Bob Odenkirk & David Cross

Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Scott Adsit, Scott A...

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Show fans rejoice! After all these years, Bob and David are finally back together with a collection of hilarious, never-before-seen scripts, sketches, and ideas that may have just been too good for Hollywood.
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of... Read more

My Planet

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this audiobook features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage,... Read more