Literary Criticism audiobooks

The Best Presidential Writing

By: Craig Fehrman

Narrated by: Samantha Desz, Robin Miles, Arthur Morey, Leon ...

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and groundbreaking treasury of the most essential presidential writings, featuring a mix of the beloved and the little-known, from stirring speeches and shrewd remarks to behind-the-scenes drafts and unpublished autobiographies.

From the early years of our nation’s history, when George Washington wrote his humble yet powerful Farewell... Read more

Dark Archives

By: Megan Rosenbloom

Narrated by: Justis Bolding

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy?the... Read more

Ex Libris

By: Michiko Kakutani

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares her enthusiasm for more than 100 books in a series of succinct, thought-provoking essays.

“An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
“Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical... Read more

Robert Capa. Imágenes de guerra

By: Roberto Rubiano

Narrated by: Javier Lacroix

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Sufrió persecuciones políticas por sus ideas, huyó del nazismo y vivió la primavera intelectual de París de los años treinta. Estuvo en las trincheras de la guerra civil española, desembarcó en Normandía y dejó testimonios únicos sobre los combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Visitó China durante la invasión japonesa. Cubrió la primera guerra... Read more

Zumir - Das Schaukelpferd (ungekürzt)

By: Detlef Pauli

Narrated by: Frank Röth

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Hörbuch Zumir Das Schaukelpferd basiert wie das gleichnamige illustrierte Kinderbuch auf einer fantasievoll erweiterten wahren Begebenheit und richtet sich an HörerInnen ab ca. acht Jahren. Die dreijährige Lea bekommt zu Weihnachten ein Schaukelpferd geschenkt, das Großvater Karl liebevoll für sie gebaut hat. Vor Freude ruft Lea: "Komm Zu... Read more

The Master Builder

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: Expatriate

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and... Read more

Why Dante Matters

By: John Took

Narrated by: Victor Vertunni

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Why Dante Matters by John Took, read by Victor Vertunni.

John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri.

The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, ‘divides the world... Read more

Miles Jupp is Literally Unputdownable

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles Jupp probes mysteries both fictional and autobiographical in these ten radio investigations

Actor and comedian Miles Jupp puts his inquiring mind and talent for comic analysis to work, as he turns his quizzical gaze on the world of fiction.

In these ten entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books, games and binge-watched box sets... Read more

Woody Allen. Incómodo en el mundo

By: Ricardo Silva

Narrated by: José Ma. Armesto

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan Stewart Konigsberg nació en el Bronx, Nueva York, el 1 de diciembre de 1935. De padres judíos, quienes le matriculan en el City College de Nueva York y posteriormente en la universidad del mismo estado. Pronto comienza a escribir chistes y parodias que muestra a sus amigos, y pasa a formar parte de un programa de televisión llamado Your... Read more

Women and C.S. Lewis

By: Carolyn Curtis & Mary Pomroy Key

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Sexism in Narnia? Or Screwtape? Or amongst the Inklings? Many critics have labelled C.S. Lewis a sexist, even a misogynist. Did the life and writing of the hugely popular author and professor betray attitudes that today are unacceptable, even deplorable? The younger Lewis was criticized for a mysterious living arrangement with a woman, but his... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 21 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 27 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more

Yukio Mishima. Samurái de la escritura

By: Jaime Valencia

Narrated by: Victor Bedoya

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Yukio Mishima es una de las figuras intelectuales y artísticas más impactantes y versátiles del Japón moderno. Devoto seguidor de la ética samurái y crítico acerbo de la acelerada modernización de su país, su solemne suicidio en noviembre de 1970, cuando apenas tenía 45 años, fue la más sincera y radical de todas sus obras. Read more

Views from a Window

By: Gore Vidal & Bob Stanton

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in this insightful and entertaining collection of interviews given by Gore Vidal over the span of twenty years. Listen to the author’s witty, candid, and unconventional observations of his own life and work, plus his take on sexuality, society, American politics, and more. This unique audiobook provides an enlightening look at... Read more

What Were We Thinking

By: Carlos Lozada

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible.

It is an irony of our age that a man... Read more

Little Eyolf

By: Henrik Ibsen

Narrated by: Expatriate

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility'. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of... Read more

On Writing and Worldbuilding

By: Timothy Hickson

Narrated by: Larissa Thompson & Merphy Napier

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and World building, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an... Read more

Winston Churchill. Yo soy el que ruge

By: Germán Saavedra

Narrated by: Erick Trujillo

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Sin dudas se trata del más importante político británico del siglo XX, conocido principalmente por el valor transmitido en su mandato como primer ministro durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nació el 30 de noviembre de 1874 y murió el 24 de enero de 1965. Fue Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1953. Aficionado a la pintura, cronista, historiador,... Read more

The Artful Dickens

By: John Mullan

Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Artful Dickens by John Mullan, read by Jonathan Oliver.

'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn’t go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson
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Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world... Read more

Mantel Pieces

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd & Hilary Mantel - introduction

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training... Read more

The Italian

By: Ann Radcliffe

Narrated by: Sara Alexander

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of... Read more

Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Los años de formación

By: Ricardo Piglia

Narrated by: Ignacio de Anca

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Emilio Renzi, escritor y álter ego de Ricardio Piglia, aparece y reaparece en sus novelas. Ahora, con estos diarios que publica Piglia y firma Renzi, da testiminio de su carrera literaria. El autor vuelve la vista atrás y rescata los diarios escritos a lo largo de más de medio siglo, entre 1957 y 2015, a los que se incorporan también algunos... Read more

On Nostalgia

By: David Berry

Narrated by: Adam Daniel Mezei

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis... Read more