Literary Criticism audiobooks

The Alice Behind Wonderland

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.

Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling... Read more

Thalia Book Club: Ranger's Apprentice with John Flanagan

By: John Flanagan

Narrated by: Madeline Cohen & The Story Pirates

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John Flanagan sits down with Madeline Cohen to discuss the end of his Ranger's Apprentice series of children's novels. The Story Pirates perform an excerpt from the tenth and final novel. Read more

Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more

Tolkien and the Great War

By: John Garth

Narrated by: John Garth

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The... Read more

A Jane Austen Education

By: William Deresiewicz

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.

In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing... Read more

W. B. Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his... Read more

Thalia Book Club: Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate Series

By: Lincoln Peirce

Narrated by: Matthew Cody

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln Peirce joins Matthew Cody to discuss and read from his Big Nate series of children's books. Read more

El jardin devastado

By: Jorge Volpi

Narrated by: Alfredo Huereca

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Uno tras otro, alli, a la intemperie. Docenas.Mutilados, exhibidos. Sin sepultura. Una imagen que Laila solo ha visto en las peliculas. Ideal para un premio de fotoperiodismo." El infierno se desata en Irak tras la invasion y una mujer busca entre los muertos a su amor. Bagdad es un cadaver cuyos trozos se disputan las aves de rapina y ella... Read more

Thalia Book Club Discussion of Anna Karenina with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesay

By: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt & Margot Livesay

Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt & Margot Livesey

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina. Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: Kate Maurer, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: James L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will... Read more

Paradise Lost

By: Bob Linn, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Debra Bailey

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you... Read more

The Things They Carried

By: Jill Colella

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

1984

By: Nikki Moustaki, M.A., M.F.A.

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's 1984 supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Marie Kalil, M.A.

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

Divine Comedy: Inferno

By: Jim Roberts & Nikki Moustaki, M.A., M.F.A.

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more

Animal Farm

By: Daniel Moran

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's Animal Farm supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more

Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer

By: Daniel Moran

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational... Read more

Atlas Shrugged

By: Andrew Bernstein, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: James L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Richard Wasowski, M.A.

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Karin Jacobson, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more

Fahrenheit 451

By: Kristi Hiner

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more