Essays audiobooks

The Vagabond's Way

By: Rolf Potts

Narrated by: Rolf Potts

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding

For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores... Read more

Florian Illies über Gottfried Benn - Bücher meines Lebens, Band 1 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Florian Illies

Narrated by: Florian Illies & Bernd Reheuser

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bei Gottfried Benn kann es nie um reine Liebe gehen. Wer sich seit über zwei Jahrzehnten so intensiv mit Benn beschäftigt wie Florian Illies, der erlebt zahlreiche Enttäuschungen angesichts der politischen Verirrungen und der menschlichen Kälte des Autors - und doch wird er immer wieder gefangen genommen vom einzigartigen Klang der Benn'schen... Read more

Vaters Kiste - Eine Geschichte über das Erben (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Lukas Bärfuss

Narrated by: Lukas Bärfuss

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Erbe seines Vaters hat Lukas Bärfuss ausgeschlagen: Es waren vor allem Schulden. Die markante Nase seines Vaters hat er dagegen schon an seinen eigenen Sohn weitervererbt. Den Genen entkommen wir nicht, doch wie steht es um ein auf Privatvermögen zielendes Erbrecht, das uns, obwohl kaum hundert Jahre alt, wie ein Naturgesetz vorkommt? Wie... Read more

Mithu Sanyal über Emily Brontë - Bücher meines Lebens, Band 2 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Mithu Sanyal

Narrated by: Mithu Sanyal & Bernd Reheuser

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie ein Sturm ist das Werk Emily Brontës in das Leben von Mithu Sanyal hineingefegt. Die erste Lektüre des Romans Sturmhöhe: Wuthering Heights hatte für die Autorin von Identitti lebensprägende, lebensverändernde Kraft. Mithu Sanyal hat ein mitreißendes Buch über das Leben und Schreiben der weltberühmten englischen Autorin geschrieben, der man... Read more

Viswasahithya Paryadanangal

By: P K Rajasekharan

Narrated by: Jayachandran Parakode

Length: 41 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

പല കാലങ്ങളിലെ നിരന്തര പാരായണങ്ങളിലൂടെ മനുഷ്യാനുഭവത്തിന്റെയും സംസ്‌കാരത്തിന്റെയും സാര്‍വ്വത്രികതയിലേക്കു മുതല്‍ക്കൂട്ടായ രചനകളാണ് ക്ലാസിക്കുകള്‍. ഇവയില്‍ പ്രാചീനവും ആധുനികവുമുണ്ട്. ഈ ക്ലാസിക്കുകളുടെ ആഖ്യാനവിശേഷങ്ങളെയും അനുഭൂതി നിര്‍മ്മാണകലയെയും ലാവണ്യാനുഭവത്തെയും പുതിയസാഹിത്യസങ്കല്പങ്ങളുടെ കാലത്തില്‍ വിശദീകരിക്കാനുള്ള ശ്രമമാണ് ഈ... Read more

El viejo expreso de la Patagonia

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Uno de los libros de viajes más aclamados del siglo xx, recuento de un memorable periplo por todo el continente americano En este libro pionero de 1979, Paul Theroux relata su periplo de seis meses por el continente americano en ferrocarril. La aventura comienza en un tren de cercanías de Boston y acaba cuando un viejo expreso llega a la ciudad... Read more

The Skeptics' Guide to the Future

By: Dr. Steven Novella

Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.

Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to... Read more

Jacques Pepin Art of the Chicken

By: Jacques Pépin

Narrated by: Henri Lubatti

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary chef Jacques Pepin, a book celebrating his lifelong love of chickens, featuring dozens of his celebrated paintings and more than 50 recipes, along with a treasure trove of poignant and often humorous stories.Chicken may not be an extravagant ingredient, but for master chef Jacques Pépin, it is the one he turns to most... Read more

Live Wire

By: Kelly Ripa

Narrated by: Kelly Ripa

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host.In Live Wire, her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter and as a mother, she brings a... Read more

Three Lives (UNABRIDGED)

By: Gertrude STEIN

Narrated by: Mary Mcgee, Jeffrey Moore, Alberta Raines & War...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on "projects" in an effort to better the people around her. Story number two is of Melanctha, a mixed-race character who is looking for ways to... Read more

The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy (UNABRIDGED)

By: John GALSWORTHY

Narrated by: Lupe Gray, Doris Kellogg, Elliot Manrique & Les...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, and they are written much more like short stories than in the classical style of essays. Read more

Five Lectures on Blindness (Unabridged)

By: Kate M. Foley

Narrated by: Robert Evans, Clarence Shade, Donald Cole & Sta...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918. . . they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter of a century spent in work for the blind, and were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seeking to better the condition... Read more

The Conduct of Life (UNABRIDGED)

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Jeanne Cohee, Pat Sullivan, Jimmie Adams & Maso...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but also is an amalgam of what life taught Emerson. Read more

The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (UNABRIDGED)

By: ALICE MEYNELL

Narrated by: Jessica Kratz, Anne Powell, Connie Brown & Will...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." This is... Read more

Hearts of Controversy (UNABRIDGED)

By: ALICE MEYNELL

Narrated by: Lori Crays, Mark Sipos, Barbara Lafleur & Gale ...

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The... Read more

Goose-Quill Papers (UNABRIDGED)

By: Louise Imogen Guiney

Narrated by: Donna Williams, Betty Etter, Jason Azar & Kimbe...

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Louise Imogen Guiney, and American poet and essayist, here presents twenty essays with her characteristic wit and poetic flair and often a touch of satire on sometimes common topics such as the apple, the moon, mathematics and the garret, even the provocative "On Teaching One's Grandmother how to Suck Eggs." Read more

G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness (UNABRIDGED)

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Brandon Lundmark, Edward Ho, Eleanor Shepherd &...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles the articles included in the issues between November 21, 1919 to April 30, 1920. Read more

Korean Folk Tales (UNABRIDGED)

By: Im Bang

Narrated by: Linda Merrill, David Newman, Dustin Ricker & An...

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism." Manuscripts by two of Korea's (possibly) most... Read more

London Impressions (UNABRIDGED)

By: ALICE MEYNELL

Narrated by: Caleb Taylor, Madeline Washburn, Henry Mcintyre...

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The... Read more

The Columbian Orator (UNABRIDGED)

By: Caleb Bingham

Narrated by: Justin Mallory, Tim Tuck, Deborah Londono & Don...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking. Typical of many readers of that period, the anthology included many speeches celebrating "republican virtues" and promoting... Read more

From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 (UNABRIDGED)

By: George William Curtis

Narrated by: ROBERT SMITH, Steven Lane, Michael Crofton & Ji...

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education. This anthology of... Read more

Civilisation (UNABRIDGED)

By: EDWARD CARPENTER

Narrated by: Taylor Wessel, Doris Mcknight, Robert Whitehead...

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicted. Alongside this influential publication (originally published in 1889), are compiled other essays: Modern Science: A Criticism; The Science of the Future: A Forecast; Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of... Read more

G.K. Chesterton in Vanity Fair Magazine (UNABRIDGED)

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Janet Labrie, Claire Hutchison, Amanda Greene &...

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of 12 articles/essays that G.K. Chesterton wrote for Vanity Fair magazine in 1920-1921, under the general title “The Next/New Renascence: Thoughts on the Structure of the Future.” Read more

The Creed of a Credulous Person (UNABRIDGED)

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Gregory Jonas, Brian Taylor, Guillermo Wagner &...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A series of five essays by G.K. Chesterton, published in "Black and White" magazine in 1903, under the heading "The Creed of a Credulous Person". Read more