Essays audiobooks
How to be a Brit
By: George Mikes
Narrated by: Richard Goulding
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
George Mikes's perceptive manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights on important topics including the weather, how to be... Read more
India - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Becky Stephen
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
India’s huge population of 1.2 billion people is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own culture, reflecting unique histories shaped by conquest, creativity, and religion. Steeped in ancient traditions, exceptionally fatalistic, and intensely passionate about their culture, the... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.
In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard... Read more
Russia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Anna King & Grace Cuddihy
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Discovering the Russian soul is like opening a matryoshka, a Russian doll, revealing the many layers. The Russian Orthodox religion is unique, Russian history is tragic, and the people are unpredictable. Russia’s military and political power, as well as the rich contribution of its art and culture, is the result of an inner dynamic not always... Read more
View audiobookJapan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Paul Norbury
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved... Read more
View audiobookRead Through Bitter Mouth Sweet Mouth
By: Rongbao Li & Zuoren Zhou
Narrated by: Rongbao Li
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated in Chinese, an old professor from Beijing University, at end of Qing dynasty, Republic and early People's Republic of China, tells about what a Ru-ism is doing: follow mass scribes, note strange or fresh bugs and fishes, chant spring wind and autumn moon with head and tail rotating, also explore the reason of country governance peace or... Read more
View audiobookKorea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide To Customs & Culture
By: James Hoare
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Apart from the headline-making politics, not much is known in the West about the Korean people and their ancient culture. Yet those who visit Korea, whether North or South, find a land of great interest. The Koreans, when not constrained by politics or other considerations, are friendly and sociable, and the peninsula has areas of outstanding... Read more
View audiobookPlanetwalker
By: John Francis, Ph. D.
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand: he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades and two continents, the young man took a vow... Read more
View audiobookSpain - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Belen Aguado Viguer & Marian Meaney
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In the popular imagination, Spain conjures up a picture of rapacious conquistadores, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough—but how closely does everyday life in modern Spain conform to these dramatic stereotypes? This book explores the complex human realities of contemporary Spanish life. It describes how Spain’s history... Read more
View audiobookToday I F****d Up
By: Thomas Mitchell
Narrated by: Simon Kennedy & Coralie Bywater
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A toe curling, laugh out loud collection of worst day disasters.
I’d always rolled my eyes when people describe things as 'happening in slow motion'. Surely everything happens in regular time and it's only when you replay it in your head that it seems to slow down?But as the car lurched forward and I found myself sailing through the back of the... Read more
You're Leaving When?
By: Annabelle Gurwitch
Narrated by: Annabelle Gurwitch
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward mobility, financial and emotional. With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proves that our no-frills... Read more
View audiobookAnd Other Essays
By: Michael Cohen
Narrated by: Dan Cohen
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese... Read more
View audiobookA History of Scars
By: Laura Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From a writer whose work has been called “breathtaking and dazzling” by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses—reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind.
In this stunning debut, Laura Lee... Read more
Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Benjamin Lucas
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
"Die Wahrheiten sind Illusionen, von denen man vergessen hat, daß sie welche sind, Metaphern, die abgenutzt und sinnlich kraftlos geworden sind, Münzen, die ihr Bild verloren haben und nun als Metall, nicht mehr als Münzen, in Betracht kommen."
Nietzsches einziger sprachphilosophischer Essay, geschrieben 1873, veröffentlicht 1896, vorgetragen von... Read more
Apuntes para enfrentar el destino
By: Miriam Mabel Martínez
Narrated by: Diana Huicochea
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Anecdóticas reflexiones sobre la modernidad, el arte contemporáneo y la globalización de la cultura. ¿Se puede meter en un mismo saco la vida de una mujer de campo, alejada de todo lo que tiene que ver con el arte contemporáneo, las amarguras de un crítico de la plástica moderna, y la lectura de un filósofo sobre las novedades de la tecnología... Read more
View audiobookDie Kausalität in der Natur und andere Vorträge
By: Max Planck
Narrated by: Patrick Beck
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Nobelpreisträger Max Planck (1858 bis 1946) war nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Physiker, sondern auch ein Philosoph, der unablässig nach Antworten auf grundlegende, weit über die Physik hinausgehende philosophische Fragen gesucht hat. In zahlreichen Vorträgen, gern dabei Goethe zitierend, hat er die Ergebnisse seines Nachdenkens über den... Read more
View audiobookLibros de las explicaciones
By: Tedi López Mills
Narrated by: Ana Ragasol
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Atenta siempre a ampliar los límites de su escritura, a hibridar y potenciar los géneros literarios, Tedi López Mills entrega a sus lectores este insólito y sorprendente libro. A diario estamos a la caza de explicaciones, respuestas que nos guíen a través de los laberintos de la existencia: en este diálogo entre la conciencia más íntima y los... Read more
View audiobookOn Living and Dying Well
By: Cicero
Narrated by: John Hastings
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by John Hastings. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Thomas Habinek read by John Hastings.
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship,... Read more
Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus
Narrated by: Richard Goulding
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Goulding, best known for Me Before You, The Iron Lady and The Windsors.
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were... Read more
Vagabundo en África (Trilogía de África 2)
By: Javier Reverte
Narrated by: Jordi Salas
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
En su segundo viaje al continente africano, Javier Reverte recorrió Sudáfrica, Zimbabue, Tanzania, Ruanda y Congo para dejarnos un nuevo y estremecedor relato sobre el misterio de África y el riesgo de viajar por territorios inseguros. Las innumerables batallas libradas en Sudáfrica, el genocidio ruandés de 1994 o los horrores sufridos en Congo,... Read more
View audiobookThe Essays
By: Michel Montaigne
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
Length: 16 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Thomas Judd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by M. A. Screech.
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an... Read more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Saul Reichlin, known for their roles in War and Peace and Miss Marple. This definitive recording includes an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale, also read by Saul Reichlin.
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his... Read more
The Last Days of Socrates
By: Plato
Narrated by: Justin Avoth & Laurence Dobiesz
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth.
'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'
Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a... Read more
Poetics
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Nicholas Khan & Roy McMillan
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan.
One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history
In his near-contemporary account of... Read more