Literary Criticism audiobooks

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By: Christopher Benfey

Narrated by: Joshua Kane

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature

At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded... Read more

Noches de estriptís

By: Andrés Delgado

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Una exploración en profundidad por el mundo del sexo que se compra y se vende, la tras escena virtual o clandestina de quienes viven de despertar el deseo de los demás, visto a través de la mirada sagaz y desprejuiciada del autor, quien en un auténtico proceso de inmersión y sin dejar de lado el punto de vista objetivo de la ciencia o el... Read more

El día que murió el fútbol

By: Victor Rosas

Narrated by: Bobby Sanchez

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Una seria y serena reflexión acerca del fútbol colombiano, que toma como punto de referencia el asesinato de Andrés Escobar, ocurrido hace veinte años, el 2 de julio de 1994. En esta obra aborda los principales problemas que han aquejado a los seleccionados nacionales en sus participaciones en la Copa Mundo, así como sus grandes momentos y... Read more

Más allá de los 90 minutos

By: Edgar Rodríguez, Andrés Alba & Santiago Torres

Narrated by: German Torre

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro contiene 99 historias cortas de los Mundiales, un compilado de relatos de episodios singulares que tuvieron lugar alrededor de cada uno de los torneos, desde Uruguay 1930 hasta Brasil 2014. Historias que van más allá del juego y presentan el fútbol como el fenómeno social que es, ligado a la cultura popular, la política, la música o... Read more

Funderelele y más hallazgos de la lengua

By: Laura García Arroyo

Narrated by: Laura García Arroyo

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Las palabras son lo que comunican y la historia que cuentan. O las historias, mejor dicho, pues tienen una en el diccionario y como parte del idioma, y otra como parte de la vida de quien las usa. Y quizá ésta sea la más interesante: ¿cómo empezamos a usar una palabra?, ¿por qué elegimos ésa y no otra para nuestro vocabulario? Las respuestas... Read more

A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s. Read more

How to Read the Constitution--and Why

By: Kim Wehle

Narrated by: Kim Wehle

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

""A must-read for this era.”—Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the... Read more

Diese Witze machen Männer wütend

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Lachen darüber wirklich nur Frauen? Begeben sie sich in eine humorvolle Dimension die sich in besonderer Weise dem schwachen Geschlecht widmet, dem Mann. Gute und kurzweilige Unterhaltung! Read more

Planet Narnia

By: Michael Ward

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won... Read more

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

By: Anne Boyer

Narrated by: Sky Goodden

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs, time, Kansas City, and other impossible questions.  Read more

Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Jack Nolan

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including... Read more

The Ministry of Truth

By: Dorian Lynskey

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, The Atlantic 

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high... Read more

Raising Readers

By: Megan Daley

Narrated by: Helena Plazzer

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential guide for every parent and educator – all you need to know about inspiring children to read.
Some kids refuse to read, others won't stop. Either way, many parents question the best way to support their child's literacy journey. When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader?... Read more

A Delicate Aggression

By: David O. Dowling

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and facultyAs the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight... Read more

Super Women

By: Prachi Garg

Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza, Meena Nahata & Mani N. Puhan

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

This book brings forth the stories of twenty women entrepreneurs who have struck a perfect personal-professional harmony, and a chord with their immediate consumers. Their innovative ventures encompass a varied range of services – from supporting victims of acid attacks, to providing free skin care solutions; from online retail of lingerie,... Read more

Der rote Seidenschal

By: Robert Marks

Narrated by: Alexander Wikarski, Jürgen Pabst, Mathias Lodd,...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Krimi Hörspiel: Inspektor Ganimard wird in rätselhafte Ereignisse verstrickt. Was steckt hinter dem Geheimnis des roten Seidenschals? Steckt sein alter Widersacher, der Meisterdieb Arsene Lupin, dahinter? Read more

Instant Learning

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

(NOTE: Be sure to download the accompanying reference guide upon purchasing. You'll need it to go through the audio. If you can't access it, just contact us directly at audio@instantseries.com.)
How to Learn Anything Instantly!
Imagine somebody is presenting you with a huge sum of information on how to do something, instructions on how to operate... Read more

Jack of All Trades

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

ADDRESS TO: The One, who has an insatiable craving for acquiring new knowledge, developing new skills, or nurturing existing talents...
You are here "reading this" right now because you want to be able to learn all sorts of things in a short amount of time, whether to further your understanding of the world, master your craftsmanship, or continue... Read more

Instant Study Skills

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

(NOTE: Be sure to download the accompanying reference guide upon purchasing. You'll need it to go through the audio. If you can't access it, just contact us directly at audio@instantseries.com.)
How to Study Instantly!
It's late at night. You're staring at the vast amount of texts that you're trying to wrap your head around for 10 different... Read more

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

By: Henry Miller

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the... Read more

Die Einhornranch

By: Isabelle Fellner

Narrated by: Isabelle Fellner

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleo und ihr Einhorn Kyro wären perfekt geeignet für den Profi-Turnier-Sport. Leider hatte Cleos Mutter einen schweren Unfall bei einem Frei-Flug-Wettbewerb und sitzt nun im Rollstuhl, weshalb es dem talentierten Mädchen und seinem Einhorn streng untersagt ist, an den Turnieren teilzunehmen. Einzig zwei Flugstunden zur Vorbereitung auf eine... Read more

Epic Continent

By: Nicholas Jubber

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020

Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe.

Journeying... Read more

The Lessons of Tragedy

By: Hal Brands & Charles Edel

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and... Read more

Ojos rasgados

By: Elena Li Chow

Narrated by: Estefanía Herrera

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Para una ciudadana del mundo, como lo es Elena Li Chow, todos los seres humanos terminan siendo unos magníficos personajes de unas espléndidas historias, sin que puedan escapar al destino fatal, al azar impetuoso, o a la ventura o desventura merecida. Sus trece cuentos de Ojos rasgados, su primer libro, lo dejan muy claro. Pero lo sagrado en sus... Read more