Literary Criticism audiobooks
Thalia Book Club: Jon Scieszka's Robot Zot
By: Jon Scieszka
Narrated by: Lisa Von Drasek
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Jon Scieszka (The Time Warp Trio) joins Lisa Von Drasek to discuss and read from his children's book Robot Zot. Read more
View audiobookGod
By: Jack Miles
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 19 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of... Read more
View audiobookSophies schlimme Briefe (Ungekรผrzt)
By: Kirsten Boie
Narrated by: Marie Bierstedt
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sophies Oma liegt im Krankenhaus, weil sie eine neue Hรผfte bekommen soll. Das beschรคftigt Sophie und sie schreibt ihr Briefe, in denen sie erzรคhlt, was in der Schule und zu Hause passiert - aber nur die lustigen Sachen! Bestimmt mรถchte die Oma das alles wissen. Sophie passt sehr auf, dass sie keine schlimmen Wรถrter benutzt, aber das gelingt ihr... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists
By: Tom Rachman
Narrated by: Sree Srinivasan & David Fehr
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Rachman sits down with Sree Srinivasan to discuss his novel, The Imperfectionists. David Fehr reads an excerpt. Read more
View audiobookThe Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gambler is a psychologically probing novel concerning the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of Alexis Ivanovitch, a young gambling addict; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers; and other characters. Narrated by Alexis, this short novel is based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's own... Read more
View audiobookThe World of George Orwell
By: Michael Shelden
Narrated by: Michael Shelden
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Big Brother Is Watching You: The words are inextricably associated with the classic dystopian novel 1984 and with its revered author, George Orwell. The Modern Scholar series continues its exploration of great authors with this course from esteemed professor Michael Shelden. In these lectures Orwell, who also penned the epitome of the political... Read more
View audiobookChildren's Literature
By: Seth Lerer
Narrated by: Tony Craine
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.The only single-volume work to capture the rich and... Read more
View audiobookInvisible Listeners
By: Helen Vendler
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
When a poet addresses a living person - whether friend or enemy, lover or sister - we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy - George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' Great House
By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: Deborah Treisman & Lois Smith
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicole Krauss sits down with Deborah Treisman to discuss her book, Great House. Lois Smith reads an excerpt. Read more
View audiobookThings I Say to Myself
By: Dale Andrews
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
As a local TV talk show host and occasional standup comedian, author Dale Andrews has moved audiences to laughter and tears. Today, through his new book, he encourages anyone in the throes of contemporary life to make just one more day with dignity and purpose.
Each morning, Andrews starts his day off with a simple written oneโpage statement... Read more
Thalia Book Club: Wendy Mass' The Candymakers
By: Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Rebecca Stead & Max Bier
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wendy Mass sits down with Rebecca Stead to discuss her book The Candymakers. Max Bier reads an excerpt. Read more
View audiobookDavid Rakoff's Half Empty and Sloane Crosley's How Did You Get This Number
By: David Rakoff & Sloane Crosby
Narrated by: Ira Glass
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The whip-smart and funny authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture and the many ways life can go awry in New York City, as presented in their new books. Ira Glass (This American Life) will introduce the authors. Read more
View audiobookThe Heroineโs Bookshelf
By: Erin Blakemore
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like todayโs women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett OโHara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Sara Pennypacker and Marla Frazee's Clementine series
By: Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Narrated by: Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Marla Frazee discuss and read from their Clementine series of children's books. Read more
View audiobookMusen, Nymphen und Sirenen
By: Friedrich Kittler & Klaus Sander
Narrated by: Friedrich Kittler
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"Zwei Mรผnder vereinigen sich zu einer schรถnen Sangstimme. Weil sie alles wissen und weil sie alle Lust versprechen,die mรถglich ist, soll Odysseus das Schiff anlegen, an der Insel. Das sind die beiden Sirenen,die in der spรคteren ikonographischen Tradition auf den Vasen immer drei sind und immer schreckliche Mischwesen: oben Jungfrauen mit Busen,... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Pseudonymous Bosch's This Isn't What It Looks Like
By: Pseudonymous Bosch
Narrated by: Pseudonymous Bosch & Matthew Cody
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Pseudonymous Bosch sits down with Matthew Cody to discuss and read from his children's book, This Isn't What It Looks Like. Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Zombies vs. Unicorns
By: Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Alaya Dawn Johnson, L...
Narrated by: Justine Larbalestier
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Justine Larbelustier moderates an all-star panel (Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Scott Westerfeld, and Libba Bray) to celebrate the book that decides the ultimate battle: Zombies vs. Unicorns. Read more
View audiobookRuin the Sacred Truths
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Mort Crim
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or "J") writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Illiad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by... Read more
View audiobookDesperate Measures
By: William Logan
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
William Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measures continues the critical fevers of Reputations of the Tongue (UPF, 1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Beginning with an exploration of some of Robert Frost's... Read more
View audiobookThe Enchanted Places
By: Christopher Milne
Narrated by: Peter Dennis
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This is Christopher Milneโs first autobiography, which was followed by Part 2โThe Path through the Trees. From his much publicized childhood on Cotchford Farm to his war experiences, his marriage, and his proprietorship of a successful bookshop in a small English town, the life of the famous authorโs son was one of much joy and some pain. It was... Read more
View audiobookWilliam Power: Hamlet's Blackberry
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
William Power, author of Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age talks about how he and his family disconnected from their communication devices in order to reconnect with life. Read more
View audiobookLeaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own... Read more
View audiobookDetective Fiction
By: M. Lee Alexander
Narrated by: M. Lee Alexander
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world. Professor M. Lee Alexander provides listeners with a lively discussion of groundbreaking... Read more
View audiobookDemocracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
By: Robert Pinsky
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded... Read more
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