Literary Criticism audiobooks

Battle For Sanskrit : Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive?

By: Rajiv Malhotra

Narrated by: Nitin Bhattacharya

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti – Indian civilization – concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the... Read more

All the Lives We Ever Lived

By: Katharine Smyth

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most.

“Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY

Katharine Smyth was a student... Read more

Black Is the Body

By: Emily Bernard

Narrated by: Emily Bernard

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” 

In these twelve deeply personal, connected... Read more

Bookends

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon & George Newbern

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a... Read more

Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishnaji : Tales from India's Maoist Movement

By: Shigdhendu Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'India is an unbroken chain of broken promises.' In 2009, Lalgarh in West Bengal exploded on to the national consciousness. A tribal upsurge against police atrocities escalated into fierce, full-fledged guerrilla warfare against the Indian state. Kishanji, the Maoist leader, who had successfully led the movement in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh... Read more

Lear

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

King Lear is perhaps the most poignant character in literature. The aged, abused monarch is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from majesty. He is widely agreed to be William Shakespeare's most moving, tragic hero.



Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom,... Read more

The Banished Immortal

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po

In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary... Read more

The Paris Husband

By: Scott Donaldson

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway was not only one of the most important 20th-century American writers, but also a man whose adventurous and colorful life has become the stuff of legend. War correspondent, ambulance driver, and big-game hunter, he was married four times and his love life was inextricably bound up with his artistic endeavors. His first marriage... Read more

Self Deception : India's China Policies

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Simalaya

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all warnings in Tibet and our entire border? What did he do when those assumptions proved wrong? What eventually led to the debacle of 1962? Are the same... Read more

The Saga of the Volsungs

By: Jackson Crawford

Narrated by: Jackson Crawford

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members—including, among others, the dragon slayer... Read more

Transcendentalist Essays: Nature, Self Reliance, Walking, and Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Christopher Preece

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of famous transcendentalist essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Nature, Self Reliance, Walking, and Civil Disobedience.In Nature, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God,... Read more

فاجنر-اللحن الثائر

By: صلاح الدين البستاني

Narrated by: رنا الخطيب

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

يتحدَّث هذا الكتاب عن ريتشارد فاجنر المؤلف الموسيقي والكاتب المسرحي الألماني الذي عاش في الفترة ما بين عامي1813-1883 ما بين ألمانيا وإيطاليا. بعد الاستماع إلى كتاب اللحن الثائر ستخرج بصورة بليغة لرجل اجتمعت فيه فضائل كثيرة ورذائل كثيرة... ولكن من المؤكّد أنّك لن تشك للحظة بأنّك أمام شخصية عبقرية من طراز فريد حولت من مجرى الموسيقى في القرن التاسع... Read more

بيتهوفن -الموسيقار العبقري الأصم

By: صلاح الدين البستاني

Narrated by: رنا الخطيب

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

استمرَّ بيتهوفن ستة سنوات بأكملها في تأليف سيمفونيته التاسعة "الكورال" كانت الموسيقى هي إعلان انتصاره على الحياة؛ فقد عاش طفولةً تعيسة مع والدٍ قاسي يُجبره على التدريب على عزف البيانو لساعاتٍ طويلة ويضربه بلا رحمة إذا ما توقف، كان طفلًا لم يبلغ السابعة بعد لكنّه لم يلعب كباقي الأطفال في الزقاق ولم يركض خلف كرةِ قدم في مباراةٍ حامية. كانت حياته... Read more

La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Lucile Lhoste

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de La Nouvelle Héloïse, cette passion amoureuse inspirée du Moyen Âge ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet• Une... Read more

Hollywood's Eve

By: Lili Anolik

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The quintessential biography of Eve Babitz (1943-2021), the brilliant chronicler of 1960s and 70s Hollywood hedonism and one of the most original American voices of her time.

“I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve’s singular irresistible glitz.” —Jia Tolentino, The... Read more

La Ballade de Lila K de Blandine Le Callet (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Kelly Carrein

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez La Ballade de Lila K de Blandine Le Callet avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire ! Que faut-il retenir de La Ballade de Lila K, ce roman d'anticipation aux accents orweliens ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : • Un résumé complet • Une... Read more

The Morning Mind

By: Dr. Robert Carter III & Kirti Salwe Carter, MBB...

Narrated by: Wayne Campbell

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time.Bad habits. Bad feelings. Bad mornings that turn into regrettable days. Banish them all with simple brain hacks that flip negative thoughts and behaviors into... Read more

Rastafarian Children of Solomon

By: Gerald Hausman

Narrated by: Gerald Hausman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Shares the spiritual wisdom of Rastafari through the stories, teachings, and traditions of practicing Rastas in Jamaica

• Includes the author’s interviews with bush doctors, healers, and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica

• Reveals the old ways of the Rastafarians and how their beliefs form an unbroken lineage... Read more

Le feu, journal d'une escouade

By: Henri Barbusse

Narrated by: Philippe Colin

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

" Le Feu, Journal d'une escouade " est un récit par Henri Barbusse de sa vie au front durant la première Guerre mondiale, paru en novembre 1916. Il reçoit la même année le prix Goncourt. Ce livre que Barbusse, engagé volontaire en 1914, tira de son expérience personnelle du front, a été longuement mûri et pensé en première ligne pendant... Read more

Dix nouvelles sur la prostitution

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Stella Garnier

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy de Maupassant a marqué la littérature française par ses romans mais surtout par ses nouvelles comme Le Horla (1887). Ces œuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réaliste et par le pessimisme qui s'en dégage le plus souvent. La carrière littéraire de Maupassant se limite à une décennie avant qu'il ne sombre peu à peu dans la folie et ne... Read more

Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, édition bilingue francais-anglais : 5 histoires en français, 5 histoires en anglais

By: Maurice Leblanc

Narrated by: Paul Spera & Philippe Colin

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Améliorez votre anglais en écoutant de la littérature ! C'est notre promesse, notre engagement. Retrouvez 5 aventures du plus célèbre des voyous au grand cœur, le célèbre Arsène Lupin. Chaque histoire est interprétée d'abord en version française, puis elle est suivie à chaque fois de la même histoire interprétée en anglais : L'arrestation... Read more

On Reading Well

By: Karen Swallow Prior

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires one to practice numerous virtues, such... Read more

Goethe

By: Rüdiger Safranksi

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This sterling biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.



The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and intimate. No other writer so completely captivated the intellectual... Read more

Poèmes saturniens de Paul Verlaine (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Sophie Chetrit

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Poèmes saturniens de Paul Verlaine avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir des Poèmes saturniens, ce premier recueil poétique écrit par Verlaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet du recueil•... Read more