Essays audiobooks

DE HOMBRES Y BESTIAS

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Armando Garcia Venegas

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell es uno de los principales autores del siglo XX. Además de sus famosas obras de ficción, escribió innumerables ensayos de carácter político, filosófico e incluso ambiental. En esta edición hemos seleccionado cinco ensayos que corresponden de alguna manera a una evolución existencial en el autor, mostrando sus sueños de realizarse... Read more

Not Very Intelligent Design

By: Neel Ingman & Mark Ingman

Narrated by: Neel Ingman & Mark Ingman

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Do humans have the best eyesight? No.Do humans have the best hearing? No.Are humans the fastest runners? No.Are humans the best swimmers? No.Can humans fly? No.
This body of ours, is it a good design?
Or could it be better?
Not Very Intelligent Design takes an irreverent look at the human body, analyzes every part of it, and awards each part a mark... Read more

Coventry

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and artRachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the... Read more

You Play the Girl

By: Carina Chocano

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY"If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."—ELLEAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around... Read more

Essays

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 25 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century—a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes “My Country Right or Left,” “Decline of... Read more

جر ناعم

By: عمر طاهر

Narrated by: محمد العربي

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

" مرَّ الملك و حاشيته على رجل عجوز فقير يجلس على حجر كبير فألقى الملك بالسلام على الرجل لكنَّ الرجل لم يرد عليه فانزعج الملك و ذهب إليه و سأله: لماذا لم ترد السلام ؟ فقال له الرجل: لا أرد السلام على من هم أقل مني شأنًا!!. قال له الملك: فكيف أكون أقل منك شأنًا و أنا ملك البلاد ؟! فقال العجوز: أنت ملك البلاد .. ماذا ستصبح فى المستقبل ؟! فقال له :... Read more

Mudanza

By: Verónica Gerber

Narrated by: Gabriela Palafox Teran

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Habitan este libro personajes con destinos ambliopes. Creadores que en un arrebato de lucidez demencia deciden renunciar, abandonarse a la contingencia para poner su vida, cuerpo y trabajo, en un espacio de indeterminación. Este libro recoge las pruebas de una irrefutable propensión al absurdo. Todas las piezas reunidas en los ensayos tienen por... Read more

Apple, Tree

By: Lise Funderburg & various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Robin Miles, Elisabeth Rodge...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds.In this masterful collection of new... Read more

Timestamp

By: Marcus Granderson

Narrated by: Marcus Granderson

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

I’m a twenty-two-year-old Black introvert who overthinks everything, can’t get a date, yet somehow managed to graduate from Harvard.My story is probably not like yours. I’m a Black boy from the Midwest. I’ve never been kissed. I’m desperately in love with two women: Aretha and Whitney. I struggle with a mild form of social anxiety. I sing to... Read more

Fantasviss

By: Cédric H. Roserens

Narrated by: Angus Freathy

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An alternative guide to Switzerland, with a pint of irony and a drop of causticity. A condensed introduction to the 26 cantons of the Confederation. Superspy Sigmundur Sig Sigmundsson is sent for one month to Switzerland to understand why Swiss people are happier than Icelandic people. Read more

Ideas and Opinions

By: Albert Einstein

Narrated by: Will Stauff

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. Read more

The Psychic Soviet, and Other Works

By: Ian F. Svenonius

Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, expanded collection of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius. The selections are written in a scholarly yet engaging style, filled with parody and biting humor... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants

By: Umberto Eco & Alastair McEwen

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see... Read more

The Inheritors

By: Sonu Bhasin

Narrated by: Chintan Buddhadev

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why did Harsh Mariwala leave his family business?
Why did the Burman family quit the day-to-day operations of Dabur?
How did the Dhingras turn a collapsing business into India's second-largest paint company?
The Inheritors offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in Marico, Dabur, Keventers, Berger Paints, Select Group, Antara,... Read more

The Path Of Light

By: Renuka Narayan

Narrated by: Archana Pania

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behaviour. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales show how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate kindness.

Old-fashioned storytelling meets classic wit and... Read more

London Journal

By: James Boswell

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship. This account, told with much detail and candor, was one of the various journals written by Boswell, but it is the... Read more

Dictionary of the Undoing

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass & John Freeman

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Jack Lohman

Narrated by: Jack Lohman

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world.

The challenge to transform museums is unapologetically real and complicated. But everything we learn about reconciliation, science and biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability gives us the confidence and... Read more

Océano África

By: Xavier Aldekoa

Narrated by: David Brau

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es una historia de carreteras de tierra, de viajes en autobuses destartalados y de platos de mijo compartidos. También de las lágrimas de un veterano de guerra en Sudán del Sur, de la negociación de una dote en una aldea sudafricana y del hambre desesperada de los nómadas del Cuerno de África. Desde hace más de una década, Xavier Aldekoa... Read more

Genius and Ink

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the... Read more

Corazón de Ulises

By: Javier Reverte

Narrated by: Jordi Salas

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

En Corazón de Ulises, acompañamos a Javier Reverte en su viaje por Grecia, Turquía y Egipto: un viaje con la cultura a cuestas. Corazón de Ulises es un libro que, desde su primera edición, ha sido considerado un clásico de la literatura de viajes de nuestro país. Leído y estudiado en las universidades y recomendado también en numerosas guías,... Read more

La vida en cuatro letras

By: Carlos López Otín

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Partiendo de un momento extraordinariamente difícil de la vida del autor, este audiolibro empieza con una pregunta fascinante: ¿llevamos la felicidad escrita en nuestros genes? Tomando esta pregunta como hilo conductor a lo largo de catorce capítulos, López-Otín nos presenta los momentos estelares de la historia de la vida sobre la Tierra, nos... Read more

Wherever You Go

By: Daniel Houghton

Narrated by: Kyle Tait, James Langton, Corey Brill, Fred San...

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former CEO of renowned travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, a look at how travel can transform not only the traveler, but also the world.

Imagine your job was to travel the world, then report back on how everyone else should do it. That’s what happened to Daniel Houghton when, fresh out of Western Kentucky University, he took the helm... Read more

It All Adds Up

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in the New York Times, Esquire, and the New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across topics as various as the talents of President Roosevelt, the economic narrative of Jay Gatsby, and... Read more