Literary Criticism audiobooks
Philomina Fröhlich
By: Miriam Mack
Narrated by: Jasmin Shaudeen
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Tauche ein in die Welt von Philomina Fröhlich. Philomina ist ein ganz besonderes Mädchen. Eines Tages erfährt sie von ihrer Großmutter, dass sie die magische Gabe des Traumwünschens besitzt. Dadurch verändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig. Mit ihrem ersten Wunsch will sie sich ihren größten Traum erfüllen und ihre Lieblingspuppe zum Leben... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Who Would Be Sherlock
By: Christopher Sandford
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes.
Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice... Read more
To Shape a New World
By: Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Mi...
Length: 16 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Martin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political... Read more
View audiobookAmigas
By: Sergio González Rodríguez
Narrated by: Nicolás Villanueva
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
En este libro, González Rodríguez narra cómo, a partir de una conversación con una compañera de trabajo, le fue posible corroborar la teoría del investigador Robert Wright, quien defiende el papel del impulso reproductivo en los distintos intereses amorosos de hombres y mujeres, pero también nos comparte sus memorias de un acercamiento... Read more
View audiobookComparative Literature
By: Ben Hutchinson
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at "comparison" have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its... Read more
View audiobookAll for Bc
By: Barbara Hagen
Narrated by: Ryan Fox
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great American Read: The Book of Books
By: PBS
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.
What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100... Read more
Othello
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Annina Rubinstein
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Vuonna 1603 ilmestynyt Othello on eräs Shakespearen tiukimmin rakentuneista draamoista. Tarinaa ajaa eteenpäin jääkylmän juonitteleva paholaishahmo, Jago.Tarina alkaa, kun Jago kokee tulleensa ylikävellyksi Othellon nimetessä Cassion luutnantiksi. Othello, jolta tragedia saa nimensä, on pohjoisafrikkalaislähtöinen kenraali Venetsian... Read more
View audiobookThe Poetic Edda
By: Jackson Crawford
Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of... Read more
View audiobookShakespeare's Sonnets, Retold
By: William Shakespeare & James Anthony
Narrated by: Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony & Stephen Fry
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand
James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs. This drew him to the rewarding 14-line... Read more
One Can See Differently by E. C.
By: Eugene St Martin Jr
Narrated by: Tom Bauer
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A journal of my life this year as I go about my life to church, to work, to teaching, to play, and to visiting friends. The first chapter is a story of the spring. The second chapter is like a sketchbook or a glimpse into a journal. There are reflections and prayers and wishes. The ideas from church are ideas I heard from the priests. It is... Read more
View audiobookComedy Witze Humor - 2 Stunden Dicke Witze
By: Der Spassdigga
Narrated by: Der Spassdigga
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum ablachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more
View audiobookHeinrich von Kleist / Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden / Über das Marionettentheater
By: Heinrich von Kleist
Narrated by: Richard Heinrich
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Heinrich von Kleist / Zwei Essays Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden Über das Marionettentheater gesprochen von Richard Heinrich. Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden: ist ein Aufsatz des Schriftstellers Heinrich von Kleist, der wahrscheinlich in dessen Königsberger Zeit (1805–06)... Read more
View audiobookدافنشي وذكريات الطفولة
By: سيجموند فرويد
Narrated by: رشا كسار
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
عندما يقع بين يديك كتاب ل" سيجموند فرويد" فإنَّك على الأغلب لن تتركه أبدًا وسيحدث في عقلك وروحك الكثير من التغييرات، إذن تخيل أن يكون هذا الكتاب عن الفنان العبقري "ليوناردو دافنشي" !! من جملةٍ بسيطة قالها دافنشي ذات مرة ينطلق فرويد إلى مداخله فيحلّل نفسيته كطفل، فقد روى دافنشي ذات مرة حلمًا راوده أو حقيقةً ارتسمت في خياله فقال : "كذكرى مبكرة... Read more
View audiobookAnthony Powell
By: Hilary Spurling
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.
Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic... Read more
The Scoop on Ice-Cream Headaches
By: Serena Gordon
Narrated by: Highlights for Children
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A young girl did her own research on this subject . . . and it was published in a medical journal! Read more
View audiobookPersona non grata
By: Jorge Edwards
Narrated by: José Miguel Gallardo
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
La experiencia del autor en La Habana como representante del gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1971.
Jorge Edwards fue el primer escritor latinoamericano en notar que algo iba irremediablemente mal en la Revolución cubana. Las ilusiones románticas de la primera etapa, que despertaron la esperanza de las masas latinoamericanas y de los... Read more
Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4
By: Tim Key
Narrated by: Tim Key & Tom Basden
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever wondered just how much of life you can understand through poetry?
Tim Key is never far from stage and screen - from Peep Show to Alpha Papa to Taskmaster. But now he's back doing what he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting his friend and musician, the equally brilliant, and long suffering, Tom Basden.
From ruminating on... Read more
Night
By: Adrian Daray
Narrated by: Adrian Daray
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In eine abgelegene Kleinstadt, irgendwo in Mexiko, verschlägt es die beiden Touristen Pete und Charlie aus New York. Ihr Ziel ist es Urlaub zu machen, um von ihren stressigen Jobs als Anwalt und Versicherungsagent etwas Abstand zu gewinnen. Doch was sie vorfinden ist etwas völlig anderes. Die ganze Umgebung scheint sich freiwillig zu evakuieren,... Read more
View audiobookMad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Colm Toibin
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers—Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father—“Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Tóibín’s... Read more
View audiobookFine Family
By: Gurcharan Das
Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Everything is lost in the transition, but when a son is born into the family, hopes revive of... Read more
View audiobookThe Anna Karenina Fix
By: Viv Groskop
Narrated by: Julia Knippen
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your... Read more
View audiobookAstounding
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018""Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post“Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall... Read more
View audiobookSaffron and Pearls - A Memoir of Family, Friendship & Heirloom Hyderabadi Recipes
By: Doreen Hassan
Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just where their roots lie; it is also the city that informs the way they lead their lives. Known and loved for their legendary hospitality for over four decades, Doreen and Peter Hassan have preserved a way of life, a culture and a cuisine with great affection and pride. Like generations before them, the... Read more
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