Literary Criticism audiobooks

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 6

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Die drei Herren lernen viel über die hohe Kunst der Rührei-Herstellung. Eine Unterkunft zu finden, ist fast noch schwieriger. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome K. Jerome inspiriert. Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, 3: Episode

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Tag der Abreise ist gekommen. Die drei Herren beginnen ihre Flussfahrt, und bald schon schließt der erste von ihnen nähere Bekanntschaft mit dem nassen Element. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome K. Jerome inspiriert. Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 7

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Episode 7: Montmorencys Gegner Die gute Stimmung auf der Reise kann durch nichts erschüttert werden. Bis auf den unfreiwilligen Verzicht auf Ananas. Der Hund begegnet einem ebenbürtigen Gegner, und die drei Herren gehen eines Bootsinsassens verlustig. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und... Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 10

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Episode 10: Geborgen aus einem Boot In ihrem Boot sind die drei Herren den Elementen schutzlos ausgeliefert. Tapfer strotzen sie allem Unbill der Natur. Doch auch die vergnüglichste Fahrt hat einmal ein Ende. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von... Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 9

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Episode 9: Anglerlatein Mit der Fauna haben die drei Herren nun allerlei Bekanntschaft gemacht. Widerspenstige Wasservögel gehören ebenso dazu wie sagenumwobene Fische. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome K. Jerome inspiriert. Read more

De Gabo a Mario

By: Angel Esteban & Ana Gallego

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lo que vas a encontrar en este libro . es una historia en la que los protagonistas tuvieron la suerte de saber lo necesario en el lugar correcto y el tiempo adecuado, y por ello hoy son lo que son: grandes figuras de la literatura mundial, culpables de que los anos sesenta y setenta de XX hayan sido el verdadero siglo de oro de la literatura... Read more

The Alice Behind Wonderland

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.

Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling... Read more

Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. In a delightfully informative, often wry manner, Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America looks closely at... Read more

Thalia Book Club: Ranger's Apprentice with John Flanagan

By: John Flanagan

Narrated by: Madeline Cohen & The Story Pirates

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John Flanagan sits down with Madeline Cohen to discuss the end of his Ranger's Apprentice series of children's novels. The Story Pirates perform an excerpt from the tenth and final novel. Read more

Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more

A Jane Austen Education

By: William Deresiewicz

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.

In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing... Read more

Tolkien and the Great War

By: John Garth

Narrated by: John Garth

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The... Read more

W. B. Yeats

By: William Butler Yeats

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his... Read more

Thalia Book Club: Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate Series

By: Lincoln Peirce

Narrated by: Matthew Cody

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln Peirce joins Matthew Cody to discuss and read from his Big Nate series of children's books. Read more

El jardin devastado

By: Jorge Volpi

Narrated by: Alfredo Huereca

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Uno tras otro, alli, a la intemperie. Docenas.Mutilados, exhibidos. Sin sepultura. Una imagen que Laila solo ha visto en las peliculas. Ideal para un premio de fotoperiodismo." El infierno se desata en Irak tras la invasion y una mujer busca entre los muertos a su amor. Bagdad es un cadaver cuyos trozos se disputan las aves de rapina y ella... Read more

Thalia Book Club Discussion of Anna Karenina with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesay

By: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt & Margot Livesay

Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt & Margot Livesey

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina. Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Tamara Castleman

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This CliffsNotes study guide on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: James L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Debra Bailey

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Marie Kalil, M.A.

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

Divine Comedy: Inferno

By: Jim Roberts & Nikki Moustaki, M.A., M.F.A.

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to... Read more

Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer

By: Daniel Moran

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: James L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Richard Wasowski, M.A.

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The CliffsNotes study guide on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you... Read more