Literary Criticism audiobooks

Reckoning

By: V

Narrated by: V

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 core... Read more

Char Shabd Mama Aani Tyanchi Gajali

By: Pu La Deshpande

Narrated by: Avinash Narkar

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

'चार शब्द' ह्या संग्रहातील या प्रस्तावनादेखील माझ्या स्वभावातल्या ह्या अनावर मोहापोटीच निर्माण झालेल्या आहेत. गेली पन्नासएक वर्षे कलानिर्मितीच्या निरनिराळ्या क्षेत्रांत मला वावरायला मिळाले. ह्या काळात मी लिहिलेल्या या प्रस्तावना आहेत. मात्र ह्या प्रस्तावना म्हणजे एखाद्याच्या लेखनातले गुणदोष दाखवणारे चिकित्सक समीक्षण नाही. मला आवडलेल्या... Read more

Manténgase lejos de los tibios

By: Juan Manuel Roca

Narrated by: Mario de Candia

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Manténgase lejos de los tibios indicaría una posición afín a los límites ideológicos y, en la transparencia, evocaría un homenaje a una tradición religiosa. Pero el contenido del libro alcanza un equilibrio intelectual y literario difícil de lograr. El autor es consciente de los fracasos y los peligros de las astucias extremas y, por eso, sus... Read more

Vida del fantasma

By: Javier Marías

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Los artículos y ensayos de un escritor enamorado de su oficio, que opina y polemiza, que observa, critica o aplaude: una colección indispensable para conocer los entusiasmos, las bromas, las reminiscencias y el pensamiento de uno de los escritores fundamentales de nuestro tiempo. Vida del fantasma, publicado por primera vez en 1995 y ampliado en... Read more

Char Shabd Zombi

By: Pu La Deshpande

Narrated by: Avinash Narkar

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

एखादी घटना, एखादा अनुभव किंवा एखादी साहित्यनिर्मिती मला आवडली की दुसर्‍या कुणाला तरी त्याबद्दल सांगून, त्याविषयी लिहून, इतरांना त्या आंनदात सामील करुन घ्यावे ह्याची माझ्या मनाला ओढ लागते. मग ती घटना कुठल्याही क्षेत्रातली असो नाही तर विषयातली असो. एखादे चांगले पुस्तक वाचले, चांगली कविता वाचली किंवा चांगल्या गाण्याची मैफिल जमून गेलेली पाहिली की,... Read more

Ante el dolor de los demás

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Valentina Latyna

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Un lúcido ensayo sobre la representación documental e iconográfica del dolor. Veinticinco años después de Sobre la fotografía, Susan Sontag regresó al estudio de la representación visual de la guerra y la violencia. ¿Cómo nos afecta el espectáculo del sufrimiento ajeno? ¿Nos hemos acostumbrado a la crueldad? Para ello, la autora examina la serie... Read more

La verdad de las mentiras

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Narrated by: Mario Velásquez

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

La vida es una y tiene límites. La lectura de novelas los revienta y lo que era una se convierte en mil, infinitas. Ése es el mayor poder de la literatura y este libro nos hace participar de él. «Hay que leer buenos libros, e incitar y enseñar a leer a los que vienen detrás, como un quehacer imprescindible, porque él impregna y enriquece a todos... Read more

La mejor madre del mundo

By: Nuria Labari

Narrated by: Isabel Torrevejano

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

«Prepárate para leer un libro como nunca has leído antes, que rompe las convenciones de lo narrativo y lo biográfico, de los valores no sólo tradicionales, sino también de los alternativos. Un libro de humor, de amor y de dolor, tan embriagante como un vino fuerte y tan tumultuoso como la vida. A decir verdad, no concibo que pueda haber alguien a... Read more

Heaven & Hell

By: Aldous Leonard Huxley

Narrated by: Aedemon Maure

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the poetry of William Blake, Heaven and Hell delves into the murky topic of human consciousness through a discussion of religious mystical perception, biochemistry and psychoactive drug experimentation. Heaven and Hell explains how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the reader’s everyday view of... Read more

Queens of a Fallen World

By: Kate Cooper

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions

While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life and thought were influenced by women.

Queens of a Fallen World tells a story of betrayal, love, and ambition in the ancient world as seen through a woman's eyes. Historian Kate Cooper... Read more

Tending the Heart of Virtue

By: Vigen Guroian

Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian illuminates the power of classic tales and their impact on the moral imagination. He demonstrates how these stories teach the virtues through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, while he also unveils components of the good, the true, and the beautiful in plot and character. With... Read more

You Can't Joke About That

By: Kat Timpf

Narrated by: Kat Timpf

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public.In You Can’t Joke About That, Kat Timpf shows why much... Read more

Aprendiendo De Olivia y Amparo

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Aprendiendo De Olivia y Amparo, es un libro especial con enseñanzas que nos llevan a recapacitar, y aprender que el amor y la perseverancia juegan un papel muy importante en nuestras vidas. Read more

Try Not to Be Strange

By: Michael Hingston

Narrated by: Tom Lute

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his... Read more

On Writing and Failure

By: Stephen Marche

Narrated by: Stephen Marche

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue... Read more

Doamna Chiajna

By: MyBuni

Narrated by: MyBuni

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Doamna Chiajna         Albumul audio contine nuvela istorica Doamna Chiajna in lectura lui MyBuni in limba romana. Cuprins capitole:1.    Mormantul2.    Nunta3.    Fuga4.    Pustnica Read more

Time Come

By: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe & Linton Kwesi Johnson

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023

'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times
'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith

Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of... Read more

A Kidnapped West

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.”—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine“Kundera focuses on the relationship of Europe’s central ‘small nations’ like Czechoslovakia and... Read more

Minor Notes, Volume 1

By: Joshua Bennett & Jesse McCarthy

Narrated by: Joshua Bennett, Jesse McCarthy, Tracy K. Smith ...

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith

A Penguin Classic

Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across... Read more

Predator

By: Ander Monson

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides listeners through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his... Read more

Once Upon a Prime

By: Sarah Hart

Narrated by: Sarah Hart

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." —The New York Times

“An absolute joy to read!" —Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics

"Listeners, however well versed in literature and mathematics, or not, will relish author/narrator Sarah Hart's... Read more

الحلقة السادسة والأخيرة: لقد وقعنا في الفخ

By: عمار صبّان & رامي طيبة

Narrated by: ياسمين عرفشة, صالح العوفي, دانة الصبّان, عمار ص...

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

دانة قررت تقطع التلفزيون عن دقس وأمبه عشانهم ماسمعوا كلامها وجلسوا سهرانين طول اليوم قدامه. وقالت لهم ما حيرجع إلى ما يبدأوا يتحركوا ويسووا رياضة، أصدقائنا الفضائيين حاولوا يلاقوا رياضة ممتعة… لكن في الآخر لقوا مفاجأه ماكانوا متوقعينها! Read more

Gangot

By: Pu La Deshpande

Narrated by: Saurabh Gogte

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महौदधौ। समेत्य च व्यपेयतं तद्‌वद्‌भूतसमागम:॥ वाढत्या वयाबरोबर पुढे पाहण्याऐवजी मन मागेच पाहण्यात रमते... आयुष्याच्या ह्या प्रवासात कितीतरी माणसे भेटली. नात्याची, बिननात्याची, कुणी पोटापाण्याच्या व्यवसायात भेटली. कुणी मैफिलीत भेटली. कुणाकुणाच्या बैठकीत सामील होण्याचे योग आले. कुणी प्रवासात भेटले. कुणी शेजारी म्हणून... Read more

الحلقة الخامسة: الوصفة السريّة

By: عمار صبّان & رامي طيبة

Narrated by: ياسمين عرفشة, صالح العوفي, دانة الصبّان, عمار ص...

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

دقّس وأمبه مازالوا بيجربوا أشياء جديدة في كوكب الأرض، واليوم شافوا اعلان في التلفزيون لأكلة شهية لأول مرة وحبوا يجربوها… المشكلة انه الأكله غير صحية! فهل تتوقعوا ان دانة حتوافق لهم يجربوها؟ Read more