Literary Criticism audiobooks

Proust's Duchess

By: Caroline Weber

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 29 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street Journal  

Geneviève Halévy... Read more

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

By: A. D. Jameson

Narrated by: A. D. Jameson & Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.

Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the... Read more

Mientras embalo mi biblioteca

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: Gonzalo Moreno

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Debido a una circunstancia desfavorable, el escritor Alberto Manguel debe embalar la biblioteca que ha cuidado y amado durante tantos años, instalada en la casa que habita en la campiña francesa. El viaje que nos depara este libro empieza ahí: con el autor despidiéndose del jardín amurallado, de su casa, del granero que albergaba los miles de... Read more

Wonder Woman Psychology

By: Travis Langley & Mara Wood

Narrated by: Stephanie Bentley & Todd McLaren

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For seventy five years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superhero—who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marston—through twenty chapters, including some very special interviews and the previously unpublished memoir of Elizabeth... Read more

Atticus Finch

By: Joseph Crespino

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend

The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation?

In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph... Read more

Tyrant

By: Stephen Greenblatt

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of... Read more

Duft nach Weiß

By: Stefanie Gregg

Narrated by: Stefanie Gregg

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Anelija wächst wohlbehütet bei ihren Großmüttern in einem kleinen Dorf auf. Von ihrer Mutter aus Deutschland erhält sie Briefe auf so strahlend weißem Papier, wie sie es in ihrer bulgarischen Heimat nicht kennt. Ihr Wunsch nach Freiheit, nach dem "Duft nach Weiß", wird immer größer. Auch der Schriftsteller Georgi Markow verspürt den Wunsch. Er... Read more

Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him. In... Read more

Friends In Small Places

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Paul Thottam

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the... Read more

Yestermorrow

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Essays discuss Bernard Berenson, Walt Disney, Federico Fellini, the cities of Paris and London, art, literature, history, science fiction, and the design of public places Read more

Game of Thrones Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard & Esther Wane

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and compelling characters in author George R.R. Martin's bestselling work, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the popular HBO TV series based upon his books, Game of Thrones.



In Martin's richly detailed world, deceit, manipulation, and greed rule... Read more

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre,... Read more

The Mythic Dimension

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This work presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life.This second volume of Campbell’s essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his... Read more

See What Can Be Done

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America’s most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary—appearing in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s... Read more

Literary Wonderlands

By: Laura Miller

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine> to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the... Read more

Captain America vs. Iron Man

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Reba Buhr & Kevin T. Collins

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This provocative collection, edited by acclaimed media psychology writer Travis Langley and with a foreword by the legendary Stan Lee, examines the complex psychological and political choices made by Captain America and Iron Man throughout their careers, culminating in Marvel's superhero civil war which spreads far beyond the Avengers... Read more

Meditaciones desde el subsuelo

By: Guillermo Fadanelli

Narrated by: Mauricio Meléndez

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué causas pueden sustentar a la escritura? ¿Tiene sentido seguir escribiendo en el mundo contemporáneo? Para responder, recurre a una cita E. L. Doctorow: "[La ficción] enseña las leyes de la comunidad y distribuye el sufrimiento". A partir de ella construye distintos argumentos a favor de la producción de ficciones y su consumo. La literatura... Read more

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Radical Sacrifice

By: Terry Eagleton

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument... Read more

Packing My Library

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of... Read more

Other Colors

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red.

"One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim as their own.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the three decades that Nobel... Read more

The Infernal Library

By: Daniel Kalder

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Infernal Library is a harrowing audiobook tour of “dictator literature” in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse.

Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots... Read more

The Walking Dead Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Adam Verner & Allyson Ryan

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

By understanding the psychological forces that drive The Walking Dead’s action, fans can better grasp Robert Kirkman's compelling fictional universe. Which characters suffer PTSD, which show the most hope for recovery, and which instead show posttraumatic growth? Has Rick Grimes lost his mind? What's it like for a kid like Carl growing up during... Read more

Camp Austen

By: Ted Scheinman

Narrated by: Ted Scheinman

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing

The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he... Read more