Literary Criticism audiobooks

J. R. R. Tolkien

By: Mark Horne

Narrated by: Christopher Ashman

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings, you'll get a never-before-seen look at the man, the artist, and the believer behind some of the world's most beloved stories.Join bestselling author Mark Horne as he explores lasting impact of the kind of creative freedom that can only come from faith and struggle.Raised in South Africa and Great... Read more

Sonetti

By: Ugo Foscolo

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Foscolo aderì con convinzione alle teorie illuministiche di stampo materialistico e meccanicistico (in particolare il materialismo di Thomas Hobbes, Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach, Diderot ed Helvétius, e il sensismo di Condillac). Tali teorie, da una parte, contenevano elementi rasserenanti in quanto allontanavano le superstizioni, ma dall'altra... Read more

Pak Oru Puthirin Saridham

By: Pa Raghavan

Narrated by: M Arunachalam

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

பாகிஸ்தான் அரசியலைக் குறித்துப் பேசும் தமிழின் முதல் நூல் இதுதான் காஷ்மீரில் நடப்பது சுதந்தரப் போராட்டம் என்று திரும்பத் திரும்ப அழுத்தம் கொடுத்துச் சொல்லிக்கொண்டிருப்பதன் மூலம், இரு தேசங்களுக்கும் இடையிலான பதற்றத்தை அதிகரித்துக்கொண்டே போவதுதான் பாகிஸ்தானின் நிரந்தர அரசியல். காஷ்மீரின் சிறப்பு அந்தஸ்து ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டு அது இந்தியாவின் பிற... Read more

Nilamellam Ratham

By: Pa Raghavan

Narrated by: Balaji V

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

இருபதாம் நூற்றாண்டில் உலகம் சந்திக்க நேர்ந்த மிகப்பெரிய சிக்கல், இஸ்ரேல்-பாலஸ்தீன் தொடர்பானது. தனித்துவம் மிக்க இரண்டு மதங்களின் வலுவான முரண்பாட்டுப் பின்னணியில் திறமை மிக்க அரசியல்வாதிகளால் முன்னெடுத்துச் செல்லப்பட்ட மக்களின் உணர்வு சார்ந்ததொரு பிரச்னை. இன்றுவரை இது தீர்க்கப்பட முடியாமல் இழுத்துச் செல்வதன் காரணம் என்ன? பாலஸ்தீன்... Read more

Apocalípticos e integrados

By: Umberto Eco

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Una colección de ensayos magistrales sobre la cultura de masas. En estos ensayos magistrales, en los que analiza la estructura del mal gusto, la lectura de cómics, el mito de Superman, la canción de consumo, el papel de los medios audiovisuales como instrumento de información o el influjo de la televisión en el mundo actual, Umberto Eco se... Read more

Vidas escritas

By: Javier Marías

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Veintiséis breves e irreverentes retratos de grandes escritores que se han convertido en la más divertida, melancólica y fascinante invitación a leer. Faulkner a caballo, Conrad en tierra, Isak Dinesen en la vejez, Joyce en sus gestos, Stevenson entre criminales, Conan Doyle ante las mujeres, Wilde tras la cárcel, Turgueniev, Mann, Lampedusa,... Read more

El Viento en los Sauces

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Rodrigo Martinez

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

El viento en los sauces (en inglés, The Wind in the Willows) es una novela escrita por el escritor escocés Kenneth Grahame. Publicada en 1908, su éxito la convirtió muy pronto en un clásico de la literatura infantil en lengua inglesa. Read more

A Sentimental Education

By: Hannah McGregor

Narrated by: Hannah McGregor

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life. Moving... Read more

Abominations

By: Lionel Shriver

Narrated by: Lionel Shriver

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don’t. It is bracing to spend time in the company of such a smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable person.”—Wall Street JournalA striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Writing with Soft Worldbuilding

By: Hans Arthur

Narrated by: Catharine Johnson

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Worldbuilding breathes life into a story that would otherwise be monotonous.It is one of the most essential points in determining whether a book or film is successful.Some books and movies examined here are: The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Spirited Away.Fictional worlds are the perfect place to lose yourself, whether it be a... Read more

Eine kurze Geschichte über den Hochmut

By: Ingo Munz

Narrated by: Ingo Munz

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Standard. Ein angesagter Laden, ein echter Hotspot und darin: eine Lesung. Ein Schriftsteller liest aus seinem Liebesroman. Über das romantische Machwerk erfahren wir allerdings wenig. Denn was wir vernehmen, sind die Gedanken des Schriftstellers, während er vorliest; später die Gedanken des Publikums, während es zuhört, wenn es denn mal... Read more

Mothering by the Book

By: Jennifer Pepito

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Becoming a better, happier mom starts with the stories you tell your kids



As a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy. Sometimes you wonder if you're failing your children or whether you're cut out for this.



Beloved writer and mom of seven Jennifer Pepito understands. She was intent on loving her children well, but fear... Read more

Worlding the Western

By: Neil Campbell

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Worlding the Western views the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a reexamination of the consequences of the exceptionalism and closed borders of the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to... Read more

Dirty Pictures

By: Brian Doherty

Narrated by: Liam DiCosimo

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of underground comixIn the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture.Their... Read more

The Wonderfull Wizard of Oz

By: Lyman Frank Baum

Narrated by: Christopher Saylor

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. The first novel in the Oz books, the Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a tornado. Upon her arrival in Oz, she learns she... Read more

Nishchayacha Mahameru Mukundrao Panshikar

By: Pradeep Naik

Narrated by: Madhavi Pansare

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

तालुका प्रचारक ते अखिल भारतीय धर्मजागरण प्रमुख अशी वाटचाल करणारे, आपल्या प्रांताचे, मुंबई महानगराचे प्रचारक, क्षेत्राचे प्रचारक अशा अनेक स्तरीय जबाबदार्‍या समर्थपणे पार पाडणार्‍या व्यक्तिमत्वाचे चरित्र या पुस्तकात लिहिले गेले आहे. संघशाखा, कार्यकर्त्यांची/स्वयंसेवकांची/जडणघडण, समरसता मंच, भटके विमुक्त विकास परिषद, यमगरवाडी प्रकल्प पूर्वांचल... Read more

A is for Arsenic

By: Kathryn Harkup

Narrated by: Nicky Diss

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup, read by Nicky Diss.

Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016

Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t mean it's all made-up ...

Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it... Read more

Jagadishchandra Basu

By: Ajinkya Kulkarni

Narrated by: Sanket Dhere

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'चित्रमय भारत भारती' ह्या भाविसाच्या मालिकेतील वैज्ञानिक मालेतील उत्कृष्ट पुस्तक. मुलांच्या डोळ्यासमोर चित्रांच्या माध्यमातून वैज्ञानिक व्यक्तिरेखा आणि त्यांनी केलेले वैज्ञानिक प्रयोग, प्रसंग समोर यावेत, त्यापासून स्फूर्ती घेऊन वैज्ञानिक घडावेत आणि वाचनाची आवड लागून अधिक जिज्ञासा निर्माण व्हावी ह्यासाठी ह्या मालिकेची निर्मिती लहान थोर सर्वांना... Read more

She’s In CTRL

By: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Imafidon

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

An inspirational exploration of why women are under-represented in tech, why it matters, and what we can do about it.

Our eyes are now open to the dangerous fact that our technology is built by a series of big decisions made by a small number of people, mainly men. It means our technology is derived from the gender,... Read more

Latitudes

By: Alberto Lati

Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Tras recorrer más de 100 países cubriendo los eventos deportivos más importantes del planeta, Alberto Lati sin duda demostrará porqué el futbol es un fenómeno cultural más complejo de lo que imaginamos, al tiempo que contagiará a los lectores el gozo de viajar. A través de las crónicas que conforman este libro, Alberto Lati, uno de los... Read more

Sfurtidayak Katha

By: S H Joshi

Narrated by: Neha Naik

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतावर अनेक परकीय आक्रमकांनी सत्ता गाजवली. कपटी औरंगजेब व धूर्त इंग्रजांनी ह्या देशातील रयतेचे अतोनात हाल केले. ह्या परकीय आक्रमकांवर जे योद्धे तुटून पडले, ज्यांनी ह्या आक्रमकांचा बीमोड केला अशा शूरवीर रत्नांची, त्यांनी केलेल्या पराक्रमाची, स्वातंत्र्याच्या बलिवेदीवर त्यांनी दिलेल्या प्राणांच्या आहुतींच्या गोष्टी 'स्फूर्तिदायक कथा' ह्या... Read more

Moonlight und die Tochter des Perlenfischers

By: Lizzie Pook

Narrated by: Sanja Nowara

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

1886 Bannin Bay, Westaustralien: Strände voller glänzender Perlen und Muscheln so groß wie Teller – hier wollen die Brightwells mit Tochter Eliza ihr Glück finden. Zehn Jahre später ist Charles Brightwell der erfolgreichste Perlenfischer der Küste. Eines Tages jedoch kehrt sein Boot ohne ihn zurück, Charles ist spurlos verschwunden. Eliza... Read more

Super-Infinite

By: Katherine Rundell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.In his myriad lives he was a scholar of... Read more

How to Write Like a Writer

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from... Read more