Literary Criticism audiobooks

Women of Myth

By: Jenny Williamson & Genn McMenemy

Narrated by: Jennifer Williamson & Genn McMenemy

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures.

Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this... Read more

Human Animals

By: Frank Hamel

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Frank Hamel's Human Animals (published in 1915) is an infamous and classic treatise on the mythology and the evidence of hybrid humans. This was one of the first popular works on cryptozoology, and a primer for those interested in the many stories and accounts of lycanthropy and other strange evolutionary paradoxes. Covering the Were-wolf Trials... Read more

Guru Nanak te Guru Gobind Singh

By: Dr Arvind Sadashiv Godbole

Narrated by: Prashant Jadhav

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

श्री गुरू गोविंद सिंह हे शिखांचे दहावे आणि अंतिम 'देहधारी गुरू' होत. त्यांनी शिखांचा पवित्र धार्मिक ग्रंथ गुरू ग्रंथ साहिबचे संकलन आणि लिखाण केले. गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांचा आदेश: 'सब सिखन को हुकूम है, गुरू मान्यो ग्रंथ' (सर्व शिखांना असा हुकूम आहे की गुरू ग्रंथ साहिब लाच आपला गुरू माना). नांदेड शहरात गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांच्या समाधी वर बांधलेला... Read more

El bar prodigioso

By: Roberto Santiago

Narrated by: Antonio Romero, Alejandro Arestegui, Ana Lucas,...

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Una comedia prodigiosa de Roberto Santiago. Antonio lo tiene todo: un buen trabajo, una buena esposa, una buena casa. Bernardo es su mejor amigo. No tiene nada. Ahora Bernardo se ha enamorado de Sophie, la mujer de Antonio. Por lo visto, es algo imparable. Sophie es artista. Atraviesa una crisis creativa y habla "raro". Clara es la camarera del... Read more

The Waste Land

By: Matthew Hollis

Narrated by: Matthew Hollis

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.



Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded... Read more

Looking for the Hidden Folk

By: Nancy Marie Brown

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated... Read more

Primavera

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

En primavera reunimos, compilados por Peter Saint-André, fragmentos de distintas fuentes (principalmente de sus diarios), en los que Henry David Thoreau reflexiona, entre marzo y junio, sobre las particularidades que ofrece la primavera en relación con la naturaleza y con la vida de las personas. En la sociedad no encontrarás salud si no es... Read more

Creencias Supersticiosas

By: Inocencio Velez

Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Te has preguntado por qué algunas personas temen ciertas fechas, como el viernes 13? ¿Por qué decimos 'Salud' cuando la gente estornuda? ¿A qué se deben esos miedos a los espejos rotos? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“La superstición trae mala suerte.” - Umberto Eco
Muchas de nuestras supersticiones más duraderas -como evitar pasar por debajo de una... Read more

10 preguntas que responden los autores exitosos

By: Keila González Báez

Narrated by: Luciana

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Alguna vez te has sentido abrumado porque deseas prosperar con tu libro pero no tienes idea de cómo lograrlo? Es probable que hayas investigado en docenas de páginas o intentado distintos métodos y que estos solo te hayan confundido aún más. Esto sucede porque, si lo que de verdad deseas es catapultar tu carrera como autor, necesitarás... Read more

Asking Better Questions of the Bible

By: Marty Solomon

Narrated by: Marty Solomon

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Too often when we come to the Bible, we settle for easy answers. We move quickly toward the allure of resolution. But when we ask the questions the Bible is asking, we will do these things instead: understand the Eastern perspective of words, numbers, and core principles like eternal life, truth, sin, and faith recognize the literary devices and... Read more

Affirmez-vous !

By: Marie-Laurence Cattoire

Narrated by: Marie-Laurence Cattoire

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Le livre audio de « Affirmez-vous ! », lu par l'auteure.« Si j'observe autour de moi les femmes de ma génération, je les découvre belles, talentueuses, courageuses, pleines de dynamisme... Et en même temps complexées, hyperpenseuses, épuisées, se faisant du souci pour tout... Ces femmes que je côtoie me donnent l'impression d'être les victimes... Read more

Literatura y fantasma

By: Javier Marías

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro imprescindible para cuantos se dedican a escribir, pero sobre todo a leer. Escritura sobre la escritura, pero sobre todo, sobre la lectura, Literatura y fantasma reúne 72 artículos publicados desde 1978 a 2000 en diversos medios, cuyo nexo común, según su autor, es tratar «de asuntos literarios o relacionados con la literatura y sus... Read more

Mahatma Gandhi 100 Varshangal

By: Dr. S Radhakrishnan

Narrated by: Arattupuzha Hakkimkhan

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

1969 ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 2ന് ലോകമെങ്ങും മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധിയുടെ ജന്മ ശതാബ്ദി ആഘോഷിച്ചപ്പോള്‍ പുറത്തിറക്കിയ "Mahatma Gandhi 100 Years"എന്ന വിശ്വപ്രസിദ്ധഗ്രന്ഥത്തിന്റെ തര്‍ജ്ജമ. ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാ ണ്ടിനെ രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയ യുഗപുരുഷന്മാരില്‍ പ്രാതഃസ്മരണീയനായി രുന്ന ഗാന്ധിജിയെ സമകാലികരായ ലോകപ്രശസ്ത വ്യക്തികള്‍ വിവിധ കാഴ്ചപ്പാടുകളില്‍ നോക്കിക്കാണുന്നു. സമകാലിക സാമൂ ഹിക... Read more

Una casa propia

By: Deborah Levy

Narrated by: Conchi Ramírez de Haro

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que... Read more

Cartas a un joven novelista

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Narrated by: Julio García

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

«Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.» Mario Vargas Llosa «El escritor siente... Read more

Anthiveyilile Ponnu

By: Perumbadavam Sreedharan

Narrated by: Sreelakshmi Jayachandran

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

എഴുത്തും ചലച്ചിത്രലോകത്തെ അനുഭവങ്ങളും നിരവധി സിനിമകളുടെ പ്രമേയങ്ങളും ചർച്ച ചെയ്യുന്ന ഈ നോവൽ മുന്നോട്ടുവയ്ക്കുന്ന ചില യാഥാർത്ഥ്യങ്ങളുണ്ട്.ഒട്ടേറെ ചലച്ചിത്രതാരങ്ങളുടെ നേർചിത്രീകരണമാവുന്നുണ്ട് നോവൽ. ഒരു ബയോപിക് എന്നും ഇതിനെ വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കാം. ഒരു ചലച്ചിത്രനടിയുടെ ഉയർച്ചയും വളർച്ചയും പതനവും ഇവിടെയുണ്ട്. Read more

Three Roads Back

By: Robert D. Richardson

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by William Hope examines how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss and changed the course of American thought In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of... Read more

Primary

By: Alex Holland

Narrated by: Alex Holland

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

On the brink of suicide on his 21st birthday, a young man's world is turned upside down when he encounters an elf and dwarf whose voices he can hear in his head. Thrust into a realistic video game, he must race against time to recover ancient artifacts that hold the key to his true origins before his high school bully kills him. As he uncovers... Read more

Skoterresan

By: Jonatan Risberg

Narrated by: Jonatan Risberg

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Skoterresan är inspirerade av en sann händelse.Vännerna Bo och Eskild åker ut på en skotertur, intet anandes att det skulle bli ett äventyr som förändrade deras liv. Read more

Tough Guy

By: Richard Bradford

Narrated by: Eric Meyers

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Tough Guy by Richard Bradford, read by Eric Meyers.

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980... Read more

Ein Gespräch über William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 5 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

1601 am Globe Theatre in London uraufgeführt, gehört Shakespeares Drama "Hamlet" zu den bekanntesten und meistdiskutierten Tragödien der Weltliteratur. Bereits in der Entstehungszeit war das Stück populär und genießt bis heute eine beeindruckende Bühnenpräsenz; Aussprüche wie "Sein oder Nichtsein" haben Eingang gefunden in unsere... Read more

The Tragic Mind

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is... Read more

Los artistas y la política

By: Virgnia Woolf

Narrated by: Cecilia Bona

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

El arte y la literatura, en estos ensayos, aparecen como instancias democráticas y necesarias para un nuevo mundo. La idea de que un artista no puede y no debe separarse de su entorno es repetida una y otra vez en los textos, que nos muestran a una Woolf que cree en un mundo distinto al que conoció: una literatura y un arte nuevos. Solo podemos... Read more

The Wife of Bath

By: Marion Turner

Narrated by: Marion Turner

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce,... Read more