Literary Criticism audiobooks

Anna Karenina - Abridged

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks Russian society, tears her family apart, and leads, inevitably, to tragedy. Count Leo Tolstoy's epic story of passion, infidelity, vengeance, and retribution has held readers spellbound since it was first published in the late... Read more

Jimmy Carter: Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff speaks with former President Jimmy Carter about the Middle East and his new book on the search for permanent peace entitled Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid. Read more

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

By: Edward P. Jones

Narrated by: Wyatt Mason & Carmen De Lavallade

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward P. Jones sits down with Wyatt Mason to discuss his collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Carmen De Lavallade reads an excerpt from the book. Read more

Creationists

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: E.L. Doctorow

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and... Read more

Italian in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Italian language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

Portuguese in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Portuguese language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

Dutch in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Dutch language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

Czech in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Czech language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

French in 40 Minutes

By: Collins Dictionaries

Narrated by: Collins

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the French language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. ... Read more

Geraldine Brooks: March

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Geraldine Brooks has taken the mostly-absent father of the March family at the center the 19th century novel Little Women, and made him the central character of a new novel called March which has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Geraldine Brooks from Cambridge, Mass. Read more

A Celebration of Jane Austen with author Karen Joy Fowler and Other Janeites

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Karen Joy Fowler & Hope Davis

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Joy Fowler leads a celebration of Jane Austen. Hope Davis reads selections from Austen's classic works. Read more

A Lesson Before Dying - Abridged

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrated by: Lionel Mark Smith & Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Pulitzer Prize winning book follows the real-life story of the friendship formed between a disheartened schoolteacher and a Black man falsely accused of murder in Jim Crow era Louisiana.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late... Read more

Robert Gernhardt trifft Marcel Reich-Ranicki - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Marcel Reich-Ranicki & Robert Gernhardt

Narrated by: Anja Laïs, Martin Reinke, Marcel Reich-Ranicki ...

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Lyrik ist weder die bedeutendste noch die wichtigste Gattung der Literatur, aber die persönlichste, die empfindlichste, die zwarteste und die reichste." (Marcel Reich-Ranicki) "Gut gefühlt, gut gefügt, gut gedacht, gut gemacht." (Robert Gernhardt) Marcel Reich-Ranicki war der einflussreichste Literaturkritiker Deutschlands. Robert Gernhardt... Read more

Mirth of a Nation

By: Michael J. Rosen

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Perfect for commuter train rides, rush-hour gridlock, Pilates work-outs, or any time when levity might add to the very quality of life. With inimitable contributions by Merrill Markoe, Dave Barry, Garry Trudeau and Bruce McCall, you have a triumphant salute to one of America's greatest assets: its sense of humor.A salvo of hilarity from that... Read more

Story - Abridged

By: Robert McKee

Narrated by: Robert McKee

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His “Story Seminar” is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as... Read more

The World According to Narnia

By: Jonathan Rogers

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The World according to Narnia is a lively and engaging exploration of the many Christian themes in C. S. Lewis’ widely-known and universally loved children’s stories. C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia with a Christian understanding of the world firmly in his mind. Thus, it is no surprise that at every turn, some character or incident... Read more

Drei Geschichten (Ungekürzt)

By: Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit langer Zeit wieder ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sprecher von den 'Drei Fragezeichen': Drei Stimmen + Drei Autoren + Drei Musiker = Drei Geschichten. Unter diesem Motto ist die erste gemeinsame CD von Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck und Jens Wawrczeck bei dem Label "Lauscherlounge" entstanden. Die Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

By: Elizabeth Kantor

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

These days, English professors prefer to teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They indoctrinate their students in Marxism and radical feminism, show them Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and teach them the "post-colonial literature" of South Asia. When they do teach a genuine work of English or American... Read more

English Literature

By: Benjamin W. Griffith

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

American Literature

By: Francis E. Skipp

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

Thalia Book Club: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: James Wood

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilynne Robinson discusses and reads from her book Gilead with James Wood. Read more

Thalia Book Club: The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster with Author Kaye Gibbons

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Elissa Schappell & Andrea Marcovicci

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaye Gibbons joins Elissa Schappell to discuss The Life All Around Me, the sequel to her novel Ellen Foster. Andrea Marcovicci reads an excerpt. Read more

Thalia Book Club: On Beauty with Author Zadie Smith

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Laura Miller

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Zadie Smith sits down with Laura Miller to discuss and read from her novel, On Beauty. Read more

Shakespeare

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the big one from Peter Ackroyd — and a worthy companion to London: The Biography.

Only Peter Ackroyd can combine readable narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of... Read more