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Consideraciones Intempestivas
By: Friederich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Consideraciones Intempestivas" es una colección de cuatro ensayos escritos por el filósofo alemán Friedrich Nietzsche. Publicados entre 1873 y 1876, estos ensayos son críticas audaces y provocativas de la cultura, la educación y la filosofía de su época.A diferencia de otras obras de Nietzsche, "Consideraciones Intempestivas" adopta un enfoque... Read more
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The Environmental Unconscious
By: Steven Swarbrick
Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account... Read more
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The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies
By: Greg Harvey
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian—have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have reignited interest in Tolkien and his works, as well as introduced his stories to a... Read more
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Aspects of the Novel
By: E. M. Foster
Narrated by: Graham Scott
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Aspects of the Novel is compiled from a series of lectures delivered in 1927 by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in which he discussed the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he explores the seven universal aspects of the novel: story, characters, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. Read more
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Siete ensayos sobre la peste
By: Carlos Gamerro
Narrated by: Tomás Cortés
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
La primera historia cultural de la peste: un recorrido erudito y reflexivo por epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes, de la mano de Carlos Gamerro, uno de los novelistas y ensayistas más prestigiosos de la actualidad.
Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y... Read more
Madres arrepentidas
By: Orna Donath
Narrated by: Esther Cordero
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Aman a sus hijos, pero se arrepienten de ser madres. #madresarrepentidas es un tratado de pensamiento radical que no dejará indiferente a nadie. #madresarrepentidas pone sobre la mesa algo de lo que apenas se habla: las muchas mujeres que, una vez han sido madres, no han encontrado la «profetizada» plenitud. Aman a sus hijos por a su vez no... Read more
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Curso de Análise e Interpretação da Narrativa Literária Abordando o Tema Como Entender Grande Sertão: Veredas de João Guimarães Rosa
By: José Fernandes da Silva
Narrated by: José Fernandes da Silva
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
O objetivo deste curso é buscar um entendimento de Grande Sertão Veredas, partindo de alguns fatores, ainda controversos, relativos a tal entendimento. Esses fatores são: o sentido metonímico do título Grande Sertão: Veredas; a técnica discursiva aí utilizada; o significado da palavra nonada e da expressão pão ou pães é questão de opiniães; as... Read more
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Shakespeare Without a Life
By: Margreta de Grazia
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry.
For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No... Read more
Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
By: Cory O'Brien
Narrated by: Cory O'Brien
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Get this: Cronus liked to eat babies.
Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate.
Odin got construction discounts with bestiality.
Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.
And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face.
All our lives, we've been fed watered-down versions of the classic myths.... Read more
The Insightful Reader
By: I. C. Robledo
Narrated by: Eric Aragoni
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Read for Insights, Improve Your Life, & Make an Impact
* INSIGHTS present you with a shift in the way you think about an idea or topic. They provide you with a realization that you should change the way you think about something and reconsider the actions that you take. *
Insights from reading have the power to provide us with priceless... Read more
Hooked
By: Rita Felski
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In... Read more
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A Life of One's Own
By: Joanna Biggs
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The MillionsA piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the sameI took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with... Read more
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Classical Mythology
By: Richard Martin
Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and scholars since.
In six clear and concise chapters, this book explains what... Read more
Marvel Comics in the 1970s
By: Eliot Borenstein
Narrated by: Todd Menesses
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book... Read more
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Intimate Papers
By: Charles Baudelaire
Narrated by: Denis Daly
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection contains miscellaneous notes and fragments found after the death of Baudelaire. They reveal in miniature the many and varied aspects of the moral and intellectual life of the author.Included are reflections not only on poetry, but also on painting and music, displaying Baudelaire’s finely-honed critical instincts. Read more
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
By: Elizabeth Winkler
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most... Read more
El arte de la distorsión
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Narrated by: John Alex Toro
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
Un libro que ofrece diecisiete maneras de comprobar que «la lectura de ficción es una droga; el lector de ficciones, un adicto». Por el autor ganador del Premio IMPAC y del Premio Alfaguara de novela. De Joseph Conrad a Julio Ramón Ribeyro, de las verdaderas razones para lanzar la bomba atómica a una vehemente defensa del cuento como género,... Read more
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Zessalonn
By: Nina Meiroth
Narrated by: Maximilian Klampfl
Length: 19 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Nareth ist ein einfacher Hafenarbeiter mit einer Menge Schwierigkeiten. Als ihn sein Weg in die Reihen des Heeres führt, macht ihn das Erbe der Samerier - das Erbe des Zorns - unfreiwillig zum Hoffnungsträger des ganzen Landes. Dabei weiß er nur zu gut, dass es keine Helden gibt. Sein einziger Trost sind seine Freunde, die ihn auf seinem... Read more
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Evangelical Teaching
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Evangelical Teaching” is an insightful 1855 essay written by George Eliot (Marian Evans) and published in The Westminster Review. Here, Eliot explores ethical problems inherent in certain strands and styles of Christian evangelical teaching—particularly as displayed in the writings of one Dr. Cumming. While Eliot’s critique is focused on the... Read more
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The Flowers of Evil
By: Frank Pearce Sturm & Charles Baudelaire
Narrated by: Denis Daly
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals.There have been numerous translations of Baudelaire’s work into English, but many of... Read more
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El olor de la guayaba
By: Gabriel García Márquez & Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
Narrated by: Diego Trujillo & Carlos Manuel Vesga
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
En El olor de la guayaba pueden encontrarse las claves de un proceso creador y creativo de singular riqueza. Si formalmente El olor de la guayaba es una prolongada conversación del escritor y periodista Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza con su viejo amigo Gabriel García Márquez -lo que da ocasión a éste para desgranar convivacidad sus remembranzas,... Read more
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Artful Truths
By: Helena de Bres
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir.
Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher’s perspective to a general audience, Helena... Read more
Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated
By: Nava Atlas
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women’s literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and... Read more
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Reckoning
By: V
Narrated by: V null
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award–winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.
The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the... Read more