Literary Criticism audiobooks

Raja Ravi Varma

By: Ranjit Desai

Narrated by: Vijayan Menon

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up... Read more

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them... Read more

Words Are My Matter

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Words Are My Matter gathers talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. A must-listen collection, Words Are My Matter is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary... Read more

A Hand Book For My Lover

By: Rosalyn D'Mello

Narrated by: Alka Sharma

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

I wish I had never met you. You've been nothing but an inconvenience. Guised as an instructive manual, A Handbook For My Lover chronicles six years in the life of an unconventional affair between a young writer and her older lover, a photographer. This sensuous epistle documents the woman's demands and desires, her fantasies and eccentricities... Read more

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels.

In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive... Read more

Feel Free

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 

A New York Times Notable Book

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays

Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's... Read more

The Commentaries of Living Immortals

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book about living immortals in their own words. People who are hundreds if not thousands of years old and living in our world today.Their commentaries come from a discussion board I have been using for a couple of years to market my earlier book:Physical Immortality: A History and How to GuideThere are over twelve distinct immortal... Read more

Carmen de Prosper Mérimée (Analyse de l'œuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Isabelle De Meese & Ariane C...

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Carmen de Prosper de Mérimée avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Carmen, la nouvelle phare de la littérature du XIXe siècle? 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 présentation des... Read more

Lullaby Road

By: James Anderson

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through the Utah desert trafficked only by oddballs, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. So when local... Read more

Paperbacks from Hell

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades—if you dare! Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate.Horror author and vintagepaperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next... Read more

100个报价由福楼拜在中国国语

By: 古斯塔夫·弗勞伯特

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

我们已经为您选择100个福楼拜最佳报价。福楼拜是法国小说家。极具影响力，他一直被认为是现实主义文学的他的国家的领先指数。他被称为特别是他的处女作包法利夫人（1857年），他的信件，和一丝不苟的奉献他的风格和美学。著名的短篇小说作家莫泊桑是福楼拜的得意门生。一个伟大的报价是非常相似的一个伟大的想法和小诗。它可以用几句话封装的观念，思想，思考，情绪大型网络。一个伟大的报价读者被迫去思考什么，他只是听说。他不得不去想那些单词和他们的意思。一个优秀的报价要求读者停下来考虑的几句话的真正意义和诗意。一个伟大的思想达到普及的程度。行情重创到做人的本质。正确的报价可以帮助我们看到的事物或对象的一些无形的含义。以知识和这个伟大的心灵智慧的优势！ Read more

Eloge du chat

By: Théodore de Banville

Narrated by: Florence Alayrac

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Chat : voilà un sujet noble, plein de mystère et de plaisirs. Théodore de Banville consacre un poétique texte à ce merveilleux compagnon de l'artiste, le chat, narré au travers de ses habitudes, de sa nature et de ses exploits. Dieux égyptiens, nobles véritables, n'abandonnant leur langueur paresseuse que pour le plaisir de la chasse, les... Read more

100个报价维克多·雨果在中国国语

By: 维克多·雨果

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

我们已经为您选择100个雨果最好的报价。雨果是法国诗人，小说家，和浪漫主义运动的剧作家。雨果被认为是最大和最知名的法国作家之一。法国以外的，他最著名的作品是小说悲惨世界和巴黎圣母院。在法国，雨果主要是为他的诗集，如静观集（思辨的）和La的LégendeDESsiècles（历代传说）。一个伟大的报价是非常相似的一个伟大的想法和小诗。它可以用几句话封装的观念，思想，思考，情绪大型网络。一个伟大的报价读者被迫去思考什么，他只是听说。他不得不去想那些单词和他们的意思。一个优秀的报价要求读者停下来考虑的几句话的真正意义和诗意。一个伟大的思想达到普及的程度。行情重创到做人的本质。正确的报价可以帮助我们看到的事物或对象的一些无形的含义。以知识和这个伟大的心灵智慧的优势！ Read more

100个报价由温斯顿·丘吉尔在中国国语

By: 丘吉尔

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

温斯顿·丘吉尔是英国政治家，演说家和作家谁担任总理召集二战期间英国人民和英国为首的，以联盟的胜利。丘吉尔的"斗牛犬"的精神似乎即使在不好的时候，比如敦刻尔克和鼓舞人心的胜利，如不列颠之战总结英国人的心情。他是一个杰出的头脑，妙趣横生的智力;他的演讲才华和他的令人钦佩的风格使他赢得了诺贝尔文学奖于1953年丘吉尔在英语引述也许比任何人，与莎士比亚的除外;当他认为他们的快捷方式，无休止的知识池，他是报价收藏的一大风扇了。本着这一精神，这100个报价已经小心地从他的工作身体选择你介绍给他的强大的精神，让你从他的文学的发现和智慧，自由绘画。 Read more

100个报价马克·吐温在中国国语

By: 马克·吐温

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

马克·吐温是有史以来wittiest和最多产的作家之一。他主要是已知的汤姆·索亚和它的续集，哈克贝利·费恩历险记历险记这通常被称为伟大的美国小说。他被称赞为和福克纳称他为"美国文学之父"的"这个国家已经产生最大的幽默大师"。吐温开始他的职业生涯书写灯，幽默的诗，但他却成了虚无的，伪善和杀气人类行为的编年史。他的机智和讽刺，散文和演讲，赢得了赞誉评论家和同行，而他的朋友总统，艺术家，企业家，以及欧洲皇室。这100个报价已经从他的巨大的工作，把你介绍给他的性格的身体经过精心挑选，为您提供一些最尖锐的思想和措辞。 Read more

My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Kazuo Ishiguro

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
       In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo... Read more

Silk Parachute

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: John McPhee

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A WONDROUS BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his... Read more

Jane on the Brain

By: Wendy Jones

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers?



We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories—the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters... Read more

Le Prince de Nicolas Machiavel (Analyse de l'œuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Nathalie Roland & Margaux Ol...

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Décryptez Le Prince de Nicolas Machiavel avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de Le Prince, le traité politique le plus débattu au fil des siècles ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur ce grand classique dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet• Des... Read more

Rouge Brésil de Jean-Christophe Rufin (Analyse de l'œuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Agnès Fleury & Marie-Sophie ...

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Rouge Brésil de Jean-Christophe Rufin avec l'analyse du PetitLittéraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de Rouge Brésil, roman incontournable de la littérature française ? 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

Ich sehe Kinderherzen leuchten

By: Jörg Decker

Narrated by: Jörg Decker

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sechs Kurzgeschichten werden erzählt vom Weihnachtsmann. Er erzählt hier lustige und besinnliche Geschichten aus seiner Kindheit und von heute. Für Kinder, Eltern, Familien und alle, die jung geblieben sind und gern schmunzelnd dem Weihnachtsmann zuhören. Sprecher: Jörg Decker (Jorgidee). Read more

Vivir peligrosamente en tiempos extraordinarios

By: Osho

Narrated by: Carlos Vicente

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Osho es conocido como una de las figuras más provocadoras de nuestro tiempo. Este audiolibro, compuesto de una selección de sus intempestivos discursos, nos presenta una visión general de los conceptos clave del ideal de «vivir peligrosamente». Crítico con las religiones tradicionales y sus normas y doctrinas, que imponen una «esclavitud... Read more

How Amy Tan's family stories made her a storyteller

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Tan was going to write a book about writing. But what came to her mind instead were memories of childhood, reflections on family treasures, photos, documents. In Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir, Tan explores revelations about her family and how her experiences steered her toward a life as an author. Tan joins Jeffrey Brown for a... Read more

Bunk

By: Kevin Young

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice... Read more