Literary Criticism audiobooks
![Classical Mythology by Peter Meineck](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436174091_1120.jpg)
![Classical Mythology by Peter Meineck](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436174091_1120.jpg)
Classical Mythology
By: Peter Meineck
Narrated by: Peter Meineck
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In Classical Mythology: The Greeks, widely published Professor Peter Meineck examines in thrilling detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed... Read more
View audiobook![Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400181629_1120.jpg)
![Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400181629_1120.jpg)
Harry, a History
By: Melissa Anelli
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what it was like when the Harry Potter saga was still unfinished. What it was like to seek out friends, families, online forums, fan fiction, and podcasts to get a fix between novels. When the... Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664042_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664042_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars
By: Gary Schmidt
Narrated by: Khris Lewin
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Gary Schmidt talks about the frequently comic mishaps and adventures of a 12-year-old Long Island boy in the Vietnam era. Actor Khris Lewin performs an excerpt from the book. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore.
Thalia Kids' Book Club events are lively talks between children's book authors and their fans (ages... Read more
![A Way With Words IV by Michael Drout](http://covers.libro.fm/9781440718076_1120.jpg)
![A Way With Words IV by Michael Drout](http://covers.libro.fm/9781440718076_1120.jpg)
A Way With Words IV
By: Michael Drout
Narrated by: Michael Drout
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Way with Words I, II, and III, Professor Michael D.C. Drout increased listeners' understanding of the way literature works, of the rhetoric that in many ways defines people's lives, and of the intricacies of grammar, all while maintaining a lively tone that conveys the professor's infectious enthusiasm for the subject. In part IV of this... Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663908_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663908_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem, Judith Freeman & Rich Cohen
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude) joins Judith Freeman and Rich Cohen in celebrating Raymond Chandler's classic detective novel, The Big Sleep. Read more
View audiobook![James Joyce in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539852_1120.jpg)
![James Joyce in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539852_1120.jpg)
James Joyce in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From a young age, James Joyce showed a precocious, original intellect and a confidence in his own artistic destiny. He would indeed go on to transform the nature of modern literature, employing a unique stream-of-consciousness technique rich in symbolism and wordplay. Through his art, the Dublin native sought to reveal the radiance and meaning... Read more
View audiobook![Borges in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539890_1120.jpg)
![Borges in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539890_1120.jpg)
Borges in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges’ frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges’ focus on universal themes early on came to belittle the... Read more
View audiobook![Reading Magic by Mem Fox](http://covers.libro.fm/9781608144983_1120.jpg)
![Reading Magic by Mem Fox](http://covers.libro.fm/9781608144983_1120.jpg)
Reading Magic
By: Mem Fox
Narrated by: Mem Fox
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
We all hope and expect our children will learn to read, but how many of us realize we can get our kids on the road to reading simply by reading aloud to them every day? With passion and humor, Mem Fox explains why reading aloud to young children has such an impact on their ability to read—and on their entire lives. Writing as an ordinary mother... Read more
View audiobook![Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land by PBS NewsHour](http://covers.libro.fm/9781987105322_1120.jpg)
![Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land by PBS NewsHour](http://covers.libro.fm/9781987105322_1120.jpg)
Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his new book on the Middle East peace process, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work, with Margaret Warner. Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663779_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663779_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: John Hockenberry & Rita Wolf
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Geraldine Brooks sits down with John Hockenberry to discuss her novel People of the Book. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt. Read more
View audiobook![D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539814_1120.jpg)
![D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539814_1120.jpg)
D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
By the end of his life, Lawrence had despaired of Western civilization, which he felt had corrupted and weakened the human spirit. He believed that we had somehow lost touch with our instinctual being and no longer responded to the 'true voice' of our blood. We still possessed such truth deep within us, but it was smothered by a dead culture.His... Read more
View audiobook![Beckett in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539838_1120.jpg)
![Beckett in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481539838_1120.jpg)
Beckett in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Samuel Beckett’s work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving us blinking with stinging eyes at unremitting reality. Beckett’s... Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Stroud's Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664073_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Stroud's Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664073_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Stroud's Heroes of the Valley
By: Jonathan Stroud
Narrated by: Matthew Cody
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy discusses his new novel with Matthew Cody (author of the upcoming book Powerless) that follows a young shepherd on a hero's quest. Along the way, he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and the truth about the legends he grew up listening to. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore. Read more
View audiobook![Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature by Michael Drout](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436172950_1120.jpg)
![Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature by Michael Drout](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436172950_1120.jpg)
Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
By: Michael Drout
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The overwhelming success of the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter series aptly demonstrates that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the new millennium. The names of authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Terry Brooks evoke ripe tales of heroism and the clash of good versus evil in magical, faraway lands. The rich... Read more
View audiobook![Odyssey of the West I by Timothy B. Shutt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436173117_1120.jpg)
![Odyssey of the West I by Timothy B. Shutt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436173117_1120.jpg)
Odyssey of the West I
By: Timothy B. Shutt
Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in... Read more
View audiobook![Odyssey of the West II by Timothy B. Shutt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436173124_1120.jpg)
![Odyssey of the West II by Timothy B. Shutt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436173124_1120.jpg)
Odyssey of the West II
By: Timothy B. Shutt
Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universi- ties. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures dis- cussed. The lectures address a... Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Louise Erdrich's The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663854_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Louise Erdrich's The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467663854_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Louise Erdrich's The Red Convertible
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich, Amy Goodman & Sonia Manzano
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Louis Erdrich sits down with Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) to discuss her short story collection, The Red Convertible. Sonia Manzano reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
View audiobook![Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400179831_1120.jpg)
![Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400179831_1120.jpg)
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong
By: Pierre Bayard
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But, as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, sometimes the master missed his mark. Using the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key, Bayard unravels the case, leading the reader to the astonishing... Read more
View audiobook![The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature by Adam Potkay & Monica Brzezinski Potkay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781440732713_1120.jpg)
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The Bible and the Roots of Western Literature
By: Adam Potkay & Monica Brzezinski Potkay
Narrated by: Adam Potkay
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bible is renowned as a rich source of myth and parable, prose and poetry. Indeed, much of Western Literature owes an enormous debt to the unique and widely varied writings in this important religious text. Read more
View audiobook![The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483057118_1120.jpg)
![The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483057118_1120.jpg)
The Ten-Cent Plague
By: David Hajdu
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books. The Ten-Cent Plague explores this cultural emergence and its fierce backlash while challenging common notions of the divide between “high” and “low” art.David Hajdu... Read more
View audiobook![The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400179954_1120.jpg)
![The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois](http://covers.libro.fm/9781400179954_1120.jpg)
The Souls of Black Folk
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the... Read more
View audiobook![Eternal Chalice by Monica Brzezinski Potkay](http://covers.libro.fm/9781436173049_1120.jpg)
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Eternal Chalice
By: Monica Brzezinski Potkay
Narrated by: Monica Brzezinski Potkay
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We'll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as... Read more
View audiobook![Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues by Mark Eddy Smith](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481542074_1120.jpg)
![Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues by Mark Eddy Smith](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481542074_1120.jpg)
Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues
By: Mark Eddy Smith
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right and noble in this world have their source in that one.”—from the authorThe Lord of the Rings offers us essential lessons in living. Here... Read more
View audiobook![Thalia Book Club: Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664011_1120.jpg)
![Thalia Book Club: Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke](http://covers.libro.fm/9781467664011_1120.jpg)
Thalia Book Club: Cornelia Funke's Inkdeath
By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Madeline Cohen
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Cornelia Funke makes a rare appearance to talk about the stunning conclusion to the beloved Inkheart trilogy, a thrilling adventure series. Co-presented with Bank Street Bookstore, Thalia Kids' Book Club events are lively talks between children's book authors and their fans (ages 9-12) plus one event for teens.... Read more
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