Essays audiobooks

Thought Through the Centuries

By: Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson & Napoleon...

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster, Phil Paonessa & Jim Seybert

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Napoleon Hill are some of the most notable names in nonfiction classics. While these authors each come from very different time periods, their thoughts have been chronicled in the books that they wrote, and their advice has been followed by millions of individuals for centuries. Explore their views on... Read more

PornoXplotación

By: Mabel Lozano & Pablo J. Conellie

Narrated by: Gerard Flores & Inma Ortiz

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

PornoXplotación es una bofetada de realidad para quienes creen que la pornografía es ajena a sus vidas. Es, también, una llamada de atención destinada a informarnos y sensibilizarnos sobre el porno, un fenómeno que traspasa las fronteras digitales y que puede desencadenar efectos devastadores al ser ritualizado por menores y adultos en las... Read more

Black Joy

By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

Narrated by: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional

With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today, this is “a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and out loud” (Kerry Washington).

When... Read more

Las rosas del sur

By: Julio Llamazares

Narrated by: Fernando Soto

Length: 23 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Diez años después de la publicación de su aclamada Las rosas de piedra, Julio Llamazares concluye su recorrido por España y su historia a través de las catedrales. «Llamazares deja constancia de lo que le ocurre a un viajero sin otra intención que disfrutar de su periplo. Las rosas del sur posee una fresca andadura narrativa.»
Santos Sanz... Read more

'The Man in Black' by Oliver Goldsmith

By: M. Venkataraman

Narrated by: M. Venkataraman

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith was a famous English writer. Among his writings is a prose collection of essays titled “The Citizen of the World”. The “The Man in Black” is a piece of writing from this collection of essays. In this essay, Goldsmith makes a mockery of the then contemporary society. He attacks the social and political situation that dominated... Read more

Cuaderno de faros

By: Jazmina Barrera

Narrated by: Luciana Falcón

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Los ensayos de Cuaderno de faros constituyen una colección alimentada pacientemente con apuntes de viajes, crónicas personales, recuerdos de lecturas y referencias históricas. En su afán coleccionista, «una pasión fervorosa pero domesticada», la autora visita algunos faros reales, como el de Yaquina Head, el de Goury o el de Tapia de Casariego,... Read more

Dharma Artha Kama Moksha

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a... Read more

The Mind of Plants

By: John C. Ryan, Patrícia Vieira & Monica Gagliano

Narrated by: Senn Annis & Michael Manuel

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.
From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with  humanity and with the world at large has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual teachers and seekers.... Read more

Another Lousy Day in Paradise

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.



"Good fishing and good writing use the same skills," writes John Gierach, "whether you're after a trout or a story, you won’t get that far with brute force. You’re better off to watch, wait, and remain calm... Read more

Against the Tide

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Against the Tide by Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley, read by Kris Dyer.

'His moral courage shines through from the start.' – Sunday Telegraph

The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume.

The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative... Read more

Hands

By: Lauren Brown

Narrated by: Lauren Brown

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Raw, intense and absorbing.’ Matt Haig ‘As tender and funny as it is painful.’ TLS ‘I didn’t give my hands much thought before they turned against me. … They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.’ ... Read more

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

By: Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates & Genevie...

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author.“One of the greatest... Read more

The New Negro Aesthetic

By: Alain Locke

Narrated by: Jerome Harmann-Hardeman

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination

A Penguin Classic

For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the... Read more

The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith

By: William A. Dembski, Casey Luskin & Joseph M. Ho...

Narrated by: William Sarris

Length: 30 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Science and Faith Can—and Do—Support Each Other



Science and Christianity are often presented as opposites, when in fact the order of the universe and the complexity of life powerfully testify to intelligent design. With this comprehensive resource that includes the latest research, you'll witness how the findings of scientists provide compelling... Read more

Maiden Voyage

By: Tania Aebi

Narrated by: Tania Aebi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.

Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her... Read more

Contra la belleza

By: Rafael Gumucio

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Abraham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La idea es mostrar cómo en mi generación la belleza ha sido una herramienta política esencial, la madre de muchas otras manipulaciones y desigualdades, dice el escritor chileno. El rostro de los héroes que al principio ilustraba la portada de los manifiestos se convirtió en el manifiesto mismo. Como la cocaína o la heroína, la belleza anula... Read more

Entu Dikku Noorentu Kathe

By: Dr. B. R. Manjunath

Narrated by: Krishnaraj Karan Shetty

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

ಡಾ.ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್ ಬಿ.ಆರ್. ಅವರ ಲೇಖನಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹವನ್ನು ಈ ಪುಸ್ತಕವು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಈ ಲೇಖನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಪರಿಚಯದಂತೆಯೇ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆಯೂ ಇದೆ. Read more

El coloquio de las perras

By: Luna Miguel

Narrated by: Marta Martin

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"El boom latinoamericano fue totalmente machista", aseguró la escritora chilena Alejandra Costamagna en una entrevista. No nos costará darle la razón si nos paramos a pensar en el desconocimiento profundo que tenemos de la literatura latinoamericana escrita por mujeres y producida durante todo el siglo XX. Tampoco sería descabellado decir que... Read more

12 Bytes

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love, from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson“Talky, smart, anarchic, and quite sexy,” said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel,... Read more

Ajwala No Autograph

By: Dr Nimitt Oza

Narrated by: Irfan Khan

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Collection of short articles from popular Divya-Bhaskar column 'Ajwala No Autograph' Read more

Impón tu suerte

By: Enrique Vila-Matas

Narrated by: Víctor Velasco

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"No me dedico a la no ficción, ni al realismo negro ni sucio, ni a la maldita autoficción; el espacio en el que siempre me moví es simplemente el de la ficción, sin más". Sin embargo, en este audiolibro de Vila-Matas no encontrarás una novela, ni una colección de relatos, ni un diario. En "Impón tu suerte" Enrique Vila-Matas practica con sus... Read more

Selimut Debu: Impian dan Kebanggaan dari Negeri Perang Afghanistan

By: Agustinus Wibowo

Narrated by: Fitra Hartono

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Afghanistan. Nama negeri itu sudah bersinonim dengan perang tanpa henti, kemiskinan, maut, bom bunuh diri, kehancuran, perempuan tanpa wajah, dan ratapan pilu. Nama yang sudah begitu tidak asing, namun tetap menyimpan misteri yang mencekam. Pada setiap langkah di negeri ini, debu menyeruak ke rongga mulut, kerongkongan, lubang hidung, kelopak... Read more

The Pleasure of Writing and Other Essays

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection, written between 1907 and 1920 by beloved children’s author A. A. Milne, contains the following essays: “Bruce: A Short Study of a Great Life?” The Charm of Golf The Cupboard On Going into a House Goldfish My Library The Old Order Changes The Pleasure of Writing Smoking as a Fine Art Thoughts on Thermometers'' The University Boat... Read more

Odd Woman Out

By: Melanie Chartoff

Narrated by: Melanie Chartoff

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Trying to crawl inside the television set to get her parents' attention, but blocked by the tubes and wires, she went the long way around to get herself seen onscreen.In thirty-five stand alone essays and stories comprising a very late in life love story, a person who feels fictitious learns to become real from the roles she plays. Chartoff... Read more