Essays audiobooks

Femmes de sciences oubliées

By: Pays des maths

Narrated by: Pays des Maths

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Femmes de Sciences Oubliées" est un voyage captivant à travers les annales de l'histoire scientifique, révélant les récits longtemps négligés de femmes qui ont contribué de manière significative à l'avancement de la connaissance. Dans ce livre, nous rencontrons une galerie de figures fascinantes qui ont repoussé les frontières du savoir malgré... Read more

Traveling Sketches (Unabridged)

By: Anthony TROLLOPE

Narrated by: Kimberly Johnson, Deborah Pinsky, Justin Santan...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the captivating world of "Traveling Sketches" by Anthony Trollope, where each page unveils a vibrant tapestry of adventure and discovery. Trollope, renowned for his insightful narratives, invites listeners on an enchanting journey across landscapes both familiar and foreign. With his keen eye for detail and unparalleled storytelling... Read more

Bin Yılın Aşk Mektupları - Abridged

By: Ali Murat İrat

Narrated by: Zeynep Önen

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bir aşka dair en kalıcı şey nedir? Hele bir yangından artakalan küller gibi dağılan aşkların yaşandığı teknoloji çağında... Bir aşkı bize olduğu gibi anlatan, onun nelere kadir olabileceğini bütün çıplaklığıyla gösteren şey nedir? Sözler mi, hediyeler mi, davranışlar mı, asla akıldan çıkmayan hatıralar mı? İşte bir aşkı, o aşkın tarafları... Read more

The Strenuous Life

By: Theodore Roosevelt

Narrated by: John Hemilton

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The speech "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt, is one of his most famous and enduring speeches. Delivered in Chicago on April 10, 1899, to the Hamilton Club, it served as a call to action for Americans to embrace hard work, duty, and perseverance as the foundation of a prosperous and strong nation. Roosevelt argued against a life of ease... Read more

Pathless Forest

By: Dr Chris Thorogood

Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery, carefully bringing them to life with paper and paint. Today he is a botanist at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and has dedicated his life to studying... Read more

Thoughts Out of Season

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Andrew Jackson

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thoughts Out of Season" is a collection of four essays written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876. Originally published in German as "Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen," this work represents Nietzsche's critique of contemporary German culture, education, and society. In these essays, Nietzsche challenges prevailing attitudes and values,... Read more

Himmel Hölle Geisterwelt

By: Emanuel Swedenborg

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Immanuel Kant waren seine Träume und Visionen nichts weiter als Unsinn und Hirngespinste. Balzac dagegen stellte ihn in eine Reihe mit Zarathustra, Buddha und Jesus Christus. Für die Mehrheit seiner Zeit war er ein verschrobenes Original, über dessen Berichte aus der Geisterwelt sich launig spekulieren ließ. Für viele Künstler und... Read more

Pielgrzymka inaczej

By: Barbara Szmigiero

Narrated by: Katarzyna Nowak

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Pełna ironii i humoru opowieść o współczesnym pielgrzymowaniu do Ziemi Świętej Nieoczekiwany telefon od starszej siostry z Wiednia przerywa monotonię w życiu Izabeli, szczęśliwej mężatki i mamy. Prezent w postaci dwunastodniowej pielgrzymki do Ziemi Świętej spada jej jak z nieba. Jednak czy jest to najlepszy kierunek podróży dla zadeklarowanej... Read more

The Crisis of Psychoanalysis

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Jon Vertullo

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is must [listening] . . . although it will at times shock and perhaps even offend the sensibilities of traditional therapists." —American Journal of Psychiatry



This book brings together Erich Fromm's basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time, it offers an image of man consonant... Read more

Legitimate Kid \ Hija legítima (Spanish edition)

By: Aida Rodriguez

Narrated by: Kianny Antigua

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Un divertido y conmovedor libro de memorias en ensayo de la comediante Aida Rodríguez sobre el poder de superar las dificultades y transformar el dolor en risa. Aida Rodríguez ha vivido, por decir poco, una vida de torbellino. La historia de cómo pasó de la pobreza a la opulencia es alucinante: cuando era niña, su madre la secuestró y se la... Read more

Wander Woman

By: Beth Santos

Narrated by: Beth Santos

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The ideal companion for the solo traveler, both before and during her trip.” — Pauline Frommer  
Achieve your solo female travel dreams with this empowering guide for women who want to see the world—perfect for anyone who has felt the tug of wanderlust after reading Wild, Eat Pray Love, or What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding.

If you’ve... Read more

Baseball Heaven

By: Peter Golenbock

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes look at baseball history, as told through timeless interviews with major leaguers



For fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and... Read more

Träume eines Geistersehers

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Immanuel Kants Schrift "Träume eines Geistersehers erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik", erstmals erschienen 1766 in Königsberg, nimmt in der Herausbildung der kritischen Denkungsart des großen Philosophen einen wichtigen Platz ein. Denn Kant setzt sich in ihr zum einen mit der Geisterseherei Emanuel Swedenborgs wie auch mit den teils... Read more

Wild Woman

By: Philippa Forrester

Narrated by: Philippa Forrester

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Wild Woman written and read by Philippa Forrester.

An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like her, choose to live and work in the wild.

Surviving in the wilderness has long been associated with men, and conservation and environmental biology have... Read more

Ferðasögur

By: Jón Trausti

Narrated by: Matthías Harðarson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hefirðu nokkurn tíma sofnað fullur, lesari góður, og vaknað upp með timburmenn? Það er lítið betra að hafa sofnað með sjóveikis-klígju í kverkunum og sjóveikismixtúru í maganum." Í bókinni ferðasögur má finna samansafn sjálfsævisögulegra texta eftir Jón Trausta. Textarnir birtust í tímaritum og dagblöðum yfir ævi Jóns Trausta og segja frá... Read more

Brave-ish

By: Lisa Niver

Narrated by: Lisa Niver

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a... Read more

The Essential Fromm

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from "both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability" (Chicago Tribune).



As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive... Read more

Dead Weight

By: Emmeline Clein

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought

"An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood

“Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange,... Read more

Sharing Too Much

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Paul Evans

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays about family, life, and love.

Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless... Read more

Las dos izquierdas

By: Jorge G. Castañeda & Joel Ortega Juárez

Narrated by: Ricardo Estrada

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia de la izquierda en México es la historiade dos corrientes: la que proviene de la Revolución mexicana y la que ha buscado deslindarse de ella y de los gobiernos que de ella emanaron. En una de las naciones más desiguales del planeta, la lucha por abatir la injusticia ha moldeado su historia, sus instituciones, su carácter y, por ello,... Read more

Uppsala

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - UPPSALAStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta genom... Read more

El cártel judicial

By: J. Jesús Lemus

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

El Cártel Judicial puede ser tan letal como el más violento de los grupos delictivos; una sentencia a modo -infundada, a la ligera, sin elementos de prueba, con pruebas viciadas o para satisfacer intereses personales- puede llegar a ser peor que la muerte. Al más puro estilo de las organizaciones criminales, como si se tratara de un cártel, así... Read more

Stockholm

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES STÖRSTA STÄDER - STOCKHOLMStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta... Read more

Vart är vi på väg?

By: L1

Narrated by: L1

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

L1: VART ÄR VI PÅ VÄG? SVERIGES TIO STÖRSTA STÄDERStig ombord på 'Vart är vi på väg? Sveriges Största Städer' - ljudboksserien som tar dig med på en spännande resa genom landets största städers historia. Från små byar till moderna metropoler - upptäck hur dessa städer växte och formades genom tiderna. Upplev stadens pulserande hjärta genom... Read more