Essays audiobooks
فقه العشق
By: يوسف زيدان
Narrated by: عائشة الخراط
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"أرسلت تسألني ما الفارق بين العشق والاشتهاء الغرائزي؟ فأجبتها: الغرائز لذات دفينة والاشتهاء إلحاح الملح الحارق، وكلاهما عمومي. أما العشق فهو شديد الخصوصية، يثير عواصف إشتهاء العاشق نحو المعشوق وحده، ويخمدها تجاه الآخرين. ولهذا، فالعشق تهذيب للغرائز والشهوات. ومن علامات العشق، الحيرة. لأننا حين نعشق، نرى الكون بشكل مختلف، فتغمرنا الدهشة ويعربد... Read more
View audiobook아름다운 것은 무엇을 남길까
By: 박완서
Narrated by: 전해리
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
작가 박완서 문학 30주년을 기념해서 그가 써왔던 산문들을 추려 엮은 산문집. 이 책은 1977년에 발간된 첫번째 산문집 '꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채' 에서부터 1990년에 간행된 '나는 왜 작은 일에만 분개하는가'를 포함하여 모두 7권의 산문집 중에서 대표작들만 모았다. 모두 4부로 나누어 1부에서는 생활, 2부에서는 고향, 3부에서는 여행, 4부에서는 삶의 깨달음을 다루고 있다. 투박한 듯하면서도 폐부를 찌르는 듯한 그의 글솜씨가 일상의 삶들을 소재로 한 산문들에서 더욱 진가를 발휘한다. 평범한 속에서 온갖 이야기들을 끌어내었던 그의 글솜씨가 다름아닌 함께 살아나가는 사람들과 자연에 대한 애정에서 비롯된 것임을... Read more
View audiobookCenter, Center
By: James Whiteside
Narrated by: James Whiteside
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“James Whiteside is an electrifying performer, an incredible athlete, and an artist, through and through. To know James is to love him; with Center Center, you are about to fall in love.” —Jennifer Garner
“A frank examination and celebration of queerness.”
—Good Morning America
A daring, joyous, and inspiring memoir-in-essays from the American... Read more
White Girls
By: Hilton Als
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books... Read more
What About the Baby?
By: Alice McDermott
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)
What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott’s pithiest wisdom... Read more
La Felicità Vera Dov`È?
By: Andrzej Stanislaw Budzinski
Narrated by: Giulia Segreti
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Breve viaggio alla scoperta di dove trovare finalmente la felicità.
Le felicità è nelle piccolo cose: vediamo se è proprio così...Sicuramente non si deve andare da nessuna parte... è un movimento molto intenso.... però immobile...uhm
MOVIMENTO IMMOBILE?FAMMI PENSARE...?SIGNIFICA, SE NON SBAGLIO...FARE TANTA STRADA SENZA SPOSTARMI...?MI... Read more
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way
By: Nancy Spain
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos
'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express
Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and... Read more
Amores viajeros
By: Pepa Ubeda
Narrated by: Claudia Pannone
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"37 relatos basados en hechos reales. Historias de amor y desamor, miedo y armonía, vergüenza y valor, soledad y reconciliación, culpa y agradecimiento, realidad y quimera. El viaje condiciona la pasión o la necesidad de esas historias; la gastronomía, otra forma de pasión, adoba de misterio lo extraordinario a través de ajustes de cuentas, a... Read more
View audiobookAn Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands.
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the... Read more
The Science of Science Fiction
By: Mark Brake
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Media headlines declare this the age of automation. The TV talks about the coming revolution of the robot, tweets tell tales of jets that will ferry travelers to the edge of space, and social media reports that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. The science we do, the movies we watch, and the culture we consume... Read more
View audiobookThe Most Fun Thing
By: Kyle Beachy
Narrated by: Chris Mayers
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Southwest Review • Electric Literature
Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.
In... Read more
Out on a Limb
By: Andrew Sullivan
Narrated by: Andrew Sullivan
Length: 20 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Andrew Sullivan, “one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades” (The New York Times) and founding editor of The Daily Dish presents a collection of 60 his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and more.
Over the... Read more
The Long Slide
By: Tucker Carlson
Narrated by: Tucker Carlson
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America’s long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly... Read more
If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now
By: Via Bleidner
Narrated by: Via Bleidner
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now is an insider’s collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring.
For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she’s attended since... Read more
Piglet
By: Melissa Shapiro
Narrated by: Melissa Shapiro
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of the beloved New York Times bestsellers Marley and Me and Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, “a beautiful, inspiring” (Laura Schroff, New York Times bestselling author) memoir about empathy, resilience, kindness, and an adorable deaf blind pink dog.
When veterinarian Melissa Shapiro gets a call about a tiny deaf blind... Read more
Breakthrough
By: Marcus Chown
Narrated by: Marcus Chown
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'An excellent popular science book.' DARA Ó BRIAIN 'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.' ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman 'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have... Read more
View audiobook눈표범
By: 실뱅 테송
Narrated by: 하지형
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
2019년 프랑스에서 가장 많이 팔린 책, 『눈표범 La panthère des neiges』, 2019년 10월 출간 즉시 파이널리스트 명단에 없던 르노도상 깜짝 수상! 『눈표범 La panthère des neiges』은 프랑스 문단을 뒤흔든 극한여행기로 저자 실뱅 테송이 동물 전문 사진작가 뱅상 뮈니에와 그의 연인인 다큐멘터리 감독, 그리고 친구이자 조수인 철학가와 함께 티벳에 서식하는 멸종동물, '눈표범'을 관찰하기 위해 해발 5,000미터 고지대의 대평원, '창탕'에서 보낸 생생한 기록이다. 이러한 그의 기록은 마침내 눈표범을 보느냐 마느냐를 넘어, 죽느냐 사느냐에 가까운 극한의 모험담이거나 생존기, 또는... Read more
View audiobookThe Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Length: 53 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1572, Montaigne – nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man – retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of ‘essays’ – attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals and books to thumbs,... Read more
View audiobookRetorno a Atenas. La democracia como principio antioligárquico
By: José Luis Moreno Pestaña
Narrated by: Ricky Delgado
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Qué podemos aprender de la democracia griega? Esa fue la cuestión crucial que se hicieron lectores radicales como Foucault, Castoriadis o Rancière en la década de los años setenta. En un contexto de crisis, la vieja democracia ateniense se ofrecía como un marco privilegiado para pensar las posibilidades de la democracia, precisamente allí donde... Read more
View audiobookLa agonía del Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
La proclamación neoliberal de la libertad se manifiesta en realidad como un imperativo paradójico: sé libre. Domina una economía de la supervivencia en la que cada uno es su propio empresario. El neoliberalismo, con sus desinhibidos impulsos narcisistas del yo y del rendimiento, es el infierno de lo igual, una sociedad de la depresión y el... Read more
View audiobookLecciones de estoicismo
By: John Sellars
Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Qué nos enseñan los estoicos sobre cómo vivir? Un libro elegante y profundamente reconfortante que muestra por qué el estoicismo es la filosofía de nuestro tiempo. En los últimos tiempos se habla mucho de esta corriente, pero ¿cómo pensaban realmente sus miembros? John Sellars destila y entrelaza las ideas clave de los tres grandes estoicos... Read more
View audiobookWhy Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
By: Jenny Diski
Narrated by: Charlotte Randle & Chloe Diski
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski, read by Charlotte Randle and Chloe Diski.
A tonic for the soul ... I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal' Emilia Clarke
‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny’ Sunday... Read more
Aagomme Eegomme
By: Girish Karnad
Narrated by: Vikram Udaykumar
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಆಗಾಗ ಅಂದರೆ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಾಲಘಟ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿವಿಧ ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕ-ಜರ್ನಲ್ ಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರೆದ ಬರಹಗಳನ್ನು 'ಆಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಈಗೊಮ್ಮೆ' ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. 'ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ' ದಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು 'Fearless ನಾದಿಯಾ' ಚಿತ್ರಗಳವರೆಗೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಅನ್ವೇಷಣೆಯ ವರೆಗೆ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯ ಬರಹಗಳು ಈ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿವೆ. ನಾಟ್ಯೋತ್ಪತ್ತಿ, ನಾಟ್ಯಧರ್ಮ, ಆಧುನಿಕ ಕಲೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ, ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನೇರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾತಿ ಸಂಘರ್ಷ, ಹೊಸ... Read more
View audiobookEl catolicismo explicado a las ovejas
By: Juan Eslava Galán
Narrated by: Leopoldo Ballesteros
Length: 16 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
En este audiolibro Juan Eslava Galán nos ofrece un divertido acercamiento a la historia del catolicismo, dando respuesta a importantes cuestiones relacionadas con los textos bíblicos y la historia de las religiones. Una obra que ofrece clarividencia a las diversas creencias que han estado presentes en nuestra historia política, cultural y social. Read more
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