Essays audiobooks

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

On 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

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

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

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

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

Effort to Understand

By: David Murray

Narrated by: David Murray

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of essays from rhetoric authority and celebrated writing blogger David Murray applies his signature blend of humor and heart to a free-wheeling conversation about how we communicate in America"An insightful book packed with wonderful writing, practical advice, and hope for a better, kinder future." —Jonathan Eig, author of King:... Read more

Interpreting Our Heritage

By: Freeman Tilden

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman... Read more

Tuk-Tuk for Two

By: Adam Fletcher

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"The race." She said. "India. Were you serious . . . ?"



About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres through India with a woman I'd just met?



No, I wasn't serious.



"There's a fifty percent chance we'll die. And the flight's in two days. But if you want to, okay . . . "

It was not a reasonable offer. But then she wasn't a reasonable woman. She was... Read more

White Guilt

By: Shelby Steele

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

""Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain DealerIn 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused... Read more

The End of the Road

By: Jack Cooke

Narrated by: Paul Hilliar

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites. Along the way, he launches a daredevil... Read more

Visegrado

By: Karen Villeda

Narrated by: Dulce Guerrero

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Los países de Europa del Este son el blanco de esta crónica de viajes, suerte de ensayo sobre literaturas distantes, y a la vez colección de estampas sobre la identidad y los desplazamientos. República Checa, Varsovia y Hungría. En los textos que a manera de prólogos abren la lectura, la autora expone su propuesta del libro: Visegrado será... Read more

Unutulacak Şeyler - Abridged

By: Sinan Canan

Narrated by: Nisan Kumru

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Daha önce sizi Fraktal Düşünceler'imin dehlizlerine davet etmiş, ardından Kimsenin Bilemeyeceği Şeyler'in var olduğuna ikna etmeye gayret etmiştim. Sonra da Değişen Be(y)nim ile beyinlerimizi anlatmaya çalıştım size; her birimizin değişmeye nasıl mecbur ve mahkûm olduğunun altını çizmek için… Şimdi, yıllardır kendime hatırlatmaya muvaffak... Read more

Democracy and Delusion

By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Narrated by: Hangwi Lephatsi

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in an old and dusty box - but the self-evident truths are not, in fact, so indisputable. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. He argues that free education is far from impossible, the ANC's liberation narrative is too idyllic to... Read more

Sobre el amor (Serie Great Ideas)

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona, Paula Iwasaki, Rebeca Hernando,...

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.... Read more

The River Always Wins

By: David Marquis

Narrated by: David Marquis

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation... Read more

Probable Impossibilities

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls... Read more

Hungry Hearts

By: Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.

Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse... Read more

Die Überraschung

By: Wolf Lotter

Narrated by: Wolf Lotter & Ralf Herms

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

+rosebud no.8 – Die Überraschung ist die finale Ausgabe von +rosebud magazine. Das bibliophil gestaltete und produzierte Buch markiert den Abschluss einer Serie, deren Leitmotiv seit mehr als 20 Jahren, abseits von Genregrenzen, die Möglichkeiten des Mediums Papier auslotet und experimentell weiterentwickelt. Zentraler Bestandteil des Buches ist... Read more

El arte de mentir

By: Eusebio Ruvalcaba

Narrated by: Juan Antonio Edwards

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Aforismo, ensayos –unos largos, otros breves-, apuntes, reflexiones. La charla íntima se turna con la lección del maestro. Un decálogo, un instructivo, un manual. Todos comparten una sapiencia serena y libre de vanidad, un discurso sembrado de brillantes conclusiones, cuestionamientos fértiles e informes de la experiencia. La Amistad, las... Read more

Summertime

By: Danielle Celermajer

Narrated by: Felicity Jurd

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool, and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our... Read more

When Harry Met Minnie

By: Martha Teichner

Narrated by: Martha Teichner

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!*

This program is read by the author.

A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.

There are true fairy tales. Stories that... Read more

El sueño de África (Trilogía de África 1)

By: Javier Reverte

Narrated by: Jordi Salas

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Reverte nos cuenta en su primer largo viaje africano las grandes historias del pasado y las pequeñas del presente... El sueño de África es ya un clásico en la literatura española de los últimos años. Desde que vio la luz, en 1996, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas, y fue considerado por lectores y críticos como el libro pionero que refundaba y... Read more

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Hilton Als

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women,... Read more