Literary Criticism audiobooks
Thalia Book Club: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising
By: Susan Cooper
Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Susan Cooper talks with Symphony Space's education director about The Dark Is Rising sequence, her series of five thrilling fantasy novels for young readers, among them The Dark Is Rising and 1976 Newbery Medal winner The Grey King.
The heroic series, originally published in the 1960s and 70s, is inspired by Arthurian myths and depicts an epic... Read more
Ex Libris
By: Anne Fadiman
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring... Read more
Thalia Book Club: Mastering the Art of Writing About Cooking
By: Julia Child, Judith Jones & Alex Prud'Homme
Narrated by: Various
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Judith Jones and Alex Prud'homme discuss and read from their kitchen-based memoirs: Prud'homme's My Life in Food and Jones's My Life In Paris (co-authored by Prud'homme and Julia Child). Read more
View audiobookDie griechische Literatur. Von Homer bis zum Ende der Antike - Abridged
By: Martin Hose
Narrated by: Martin Hose
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Epen Homers, die Tragödien des Sophokles oder die Dialoge Platons gehören zu den Fixpunkten der europäischen Literatur. Zugleich sind sie Wegmarken der griechischen Literaturgeschichte, die mit einer technischen Revolution, der Nutzung der Schrift, einsetzt und in einem Prozess von fast 1500 Jahren in stetig wachsender Verfeinerung eine... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying
By: Edwige Danticat
Narrated by: Jonathan Demme
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Edwidge Danticat sits down with director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) to discuss and read from her book, Brother, I'm Dying. Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Richard Ford's The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land
By: Richard Ford
Narrated by: Richard Ford, Isaiah Sheffer & David Strathairn
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Ford joins Isaiah Sheffer to discuss his novels The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land. David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, Temple Grandin, Lincoln) reads excerpts from Ford's works. Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children
By: Claire Messud
Narrated by: Valerie Martin & Hope Davis
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Claire Messud joins Valerie Martin to discuss her book, The Emperor's Children. Hope Davis reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
View audiobookThe Buried Book
By: David Damrosch
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one... Read more
View audiobookDo I love thee… …let me count…
By: Various Authors
Narrated by: Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis, Amy Caldwell & K...
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from... Read more
View audiobookAdam Resurrected
By: Yoram Kaniuk
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written.A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum populated solely... Read more
View audiobookPONS mobil Sprachtraining Aufbau: Italienisch
By: Giorgio Piva, Beatrice Rovere-Fenati & Christop...
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie besitzen bereits italienische Grundkenntnisse und Sie möchten mehr dazulernen und mehr können? PONS mobil Sprachtraining enthält 12 Dialoge und Interviews mit Menschen aus Italien. Nach jedem Dialog bzw. Interview folgen Übungen, die Ihnen helfen - gesprochenes Italienisch leichter zu verstehen - die Grammatik zu wiederholen - Ihren... Read more
View audiobookHow to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read
By: Pierre Bayard
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book’s place in our culture. Using examples from works by Graham Greene, Umberto Eco, and others (and... Read more
View audiobookShakespeare
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and... Read more
View audiobookJimmy Carter: Beyond the White House
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In this October 2007 interview, Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his recent trip to the Darfur region of Sudan and themes in his new book, Beyond the White House. Read more
View audiobookPONS mobil Sprachtraining Aufbau: Präsentieren auf Englisch
By: Phil Newton
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Das praktische Englisch-Training für unterwegs: Präsentieren Sie professionell auf Englisch! Ob mit pie chart oder bar chart: meistern Sie souverän die häufigsten Situationen aus Bereichen wie Marketing, Vertrieb, Personal, Finanzen... Bereiten Sie sich auf das Moderieren, Vortragen oder Präsentieren auf Englisch vor und werden Sie bald so... Read more
View audiobookSam Quinones: Antonio's Gun and Defino's Dream
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A book conversation about the lives and dreams of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. in the 1920s and the current day with Sam Quinones, author of Antonio’s Gun and Defino’s Dream. Read more
View audiobookThe Secret of The Secret
By: Karen Kelly
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Secret has taken the book world by storm, giving people the power to live happier, more prosperous lives through the law of attraction.
In the same vein as Breaking the Da Vinci Code, The Secret of "The Secret" takes an independent look at the people and the ideas behind the bestseller and examines what made The Secret so successful.
Some... Read more
Plato's Republic
By: Simon Blackburn
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more
View audiobookDrei Erzählungen (Ungekürzt)
By: Russell Banks, O. Henry & Sophie Dahl
Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"Drei Erzählungen" ist der dritte Teil der "DREI"-Trilogie. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich (Sprecher der "Drei ???") lesen Geschichten über die Liebe - von Sophie Dahl, Russell Banks und O. Henry. Nachdem das Trio bereits Gruselgeschichten und Märchen in Form von inszenierten Lesungen veröffentlichte, erscheint mit "Drei... Read more
View audiobookDrei Märchen (Ungekürzt)
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Der zweite Teil der geplanten DREI- Trilogie der Lauscherlounge. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich (Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei ???"/"Die Dr3i") interpretieren jeweils ihr Lieblingsmärchen des dänischen Schriftstellers Hans Christian Andersen. Grund für diese Wahl: Alle drei empfinden einen persönlichen Bezug zum... Read more
View audiobookRobert Dallek: Partners in Power
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In the biography Partners in Power: Nixon and Kissinger, historian Robert Dallek highlights the tumultuous years of Nixon's presidency and provides an inside look at American policymaking during the years 1969-1974. In this interview, Dallek explains why he wrote the book and provides insight on the complex relationship between the president and... Read more
View audiobookMichael Beschloss: Presidential Courage
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, author Michael Beschloss profiles nine presidents, their families,and their decisions that changed the history of the United States. In this interview, Beschloss explains why he decided to write the book and shares insight on the men featured within its pages. Read more
View audiobookWalter Isaacson: Einstein
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, rebellious, struggling patent clerk became the father of the Special Theory of Relativity and one of the most world renowned physicists. In this interview, Isaacson discusses why he decided to write about Einstein, the scientist's creativity and... Read more
View audiobookReading Like a Writer
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Nanette Savard
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a... Read more
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