Literary Criticism audiobooks

Plato's Republic

By: Simon Blackburn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more

Drei Erzählungen (Ungekürzt)

By: Russell Banks, O. Henry & Sophie Dahl

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Drei Erzählungen" ist der dritte Teil der "DREI"-Trilogie. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich (Sprecher der "Drei ???") lesen Geschichten über die Liebe - von Sophie Dahl, Russell Banks und O. Henry. Nachdem das Trio bereits Gruselgeschichten und Märchen in Form von inszenierten Lesungen veröffentlichte, erscheint mit "Drei... Read more

Drei Märchen (Ungekürzt)

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Der zweite Teil der geplanten DREI- Trilogie der Lauscherlounge. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich (Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei ???"/"Die Dr3i") interpretieren jeweils ihr Lieblingsmärchen des dänischen Schriftstellers Hans Christian Andersen. Grund für diese Wahl: Alle drei empfinden einen persönlichen Bezug zum... Read more

Robert Dallek: Partners in Power

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the biography Partners in Power: Nixon and Kissinger, historian Robert Dallek highlights the tumultuous years of Nixon's presidency and provides an inside look at American policymaking during the years 1969-1974. In this interview, Dallek explains why he wrote the book and provides insight on the complex relationship between the president and... Read more

Michael Beschloss: Presidential Courage

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, author Michael Beschloss profiles nine presidents, their families,and their decisions that changed the history of the United States. In this interview, Beschloss explains why he decided to write the book and shares insight on the men featured within its pages. Read more

Walter Isaacson: Einstein

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Einstein: His Life and Universe, biographer Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, rebellious, struggling patent clerk became the father of the Special Theory of Relativity and one of the most world renowned physicists. In this interview, Isaacson discusses why he decided to write about Einstein, the scientist's creativity and... Read more

Reading Like a Writer

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Nanette Savard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a... Read more

Essential Anais Nin - Abridged

By: Anais Nin

Narrated by: Anais Nin

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an... Read more

Anna Karenina - Abridged

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks Russian society, tears her family apart, and leads, inevitably, to tragedy. Count Leo Tolstoy's epic story of passion, infidelity, vengeance, and retribution has held readers spellbound since it was first published in the late... Read more

Jimmy Carter: Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff speaks with former President Jimmy Carter about the Middle East and his new book on the search for permanent peace entitled Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid. Read more

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

By: Edward P. Jones

Narrated by: Wyatt Mason & Carmen De Lavallade

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward P. Jones sits down with Wyatt Mason to discuss his collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Carmen De Lavallade reads an excerpt from the book. Read more

Creationists

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: E.L. Doctorow

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and... Read more

Geraldine Brooks: March

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Geraldine Brooks has taken the mostly-absent father of the March family at the center the 19th century novel Little Women, and made him the central character of a new novel called March which has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Geraldine Brooks from Cambridge, Mass. Read more

A Celebration of Jane Austen with author Karen Joy Fowler and Other Janeites

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Karen Joy Fowler & Hope Davis

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Joy Fowler leads a celebration of Jane Austen. Hope Davis reads selections from Austen's classic works. Read more

A Lesson Before Dying - Abridged

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrated by: Lionel Mark Smith & Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Pulitzer Prize winning book follows the real-life story of the friendship formed between a disheartened schoolteacher and a Black man falsely accused of murder in Jim Crow era Louisiana.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines' National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late... Read more

Robert Gernhardt trifft Marcel Reich-Ranicki - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Marcel Reich-Ranicki & Robert Gernhardt

Narrated by: Anja Laïs, Martin Reinke, Marcel Reich-Ranicki ...

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Lyrik ist weder die bedeutendste noch die wichtigste Gattung der Literatur, aber die persönlichste, die empfindlichste, die zwarteste und die reichste." (Marcel Reich-Ranicki) "Gut gefühlt, gut gefügt, gut gedacht, gut gemacht." (Robert Gernhardt) Marcel Reich-Ranicki war der einflussreichste Literaturkritiker Deutschlands. Robert Gernhardt... Read more

Mirth of a Nation

By: Michael J. Rosen

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Perfect for commuter train rides, rush-hour gridlock, Pilates work-outs, or any time when levity might add to the very quality of life. With inimitable contributions by Merrill Markoe, Dave Barry, Garry Trudeau and Bruce McCall, you have a triumphant salute to one of America's greatest assets: its sense of humor.A salvo of hilarity from that... Read more

Story - Abridged

By: Robert McKee

Narrated by: Robert McKee

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than 15 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His “Story Seminar” is the world's ultimate seminar for screenwriters, filmmakers, and novelists. Now, Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as... Read more

Drei Geschichten (Ungekürzt)

By: Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit langer Zeit wieder ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sprecher von den 'Drei Fragezeichen': Drei Stimmen + Drei Autoren + Drei Musiker = Drei Geschichten. Unter diesem Motto ist die erste gemeinsame CD von Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck und Jens Wawrczeck bei dem Label "Lauscherlounge" entstanden. Die Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

By: Elizabeth Kantor

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

These days, English professors prefer to teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They indoctrinate their students in Marxism and radical feminism, show them Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and teach them the "post-colonial literature" of South Asia. When they do teach a genuine work of English or American... Read more

The World According to Narnia

By: Jonathan Rogers

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The World according to Narnia is a lively and engaging exploration of the many Christian themes in C. S. Lewis’ widely-known and universally loved children’s stories. C. S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia with a Christian understanding of the world firmly in his mind. Thus, it is no surprise that at every turn, some character or incident... Read more

English Literature

By: Benjamin W. Griffith

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

American Literature

By: Francis E. Skipp

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

Thalia Book Club: The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster with Author Kaye Gibbons

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Elissa Schappell & Andrea Marcovicci

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaye Gibbons joins Elissa Schappell to discuss The Life All Around Me, the sequel to her novel Ellen Foster. Andrea Marcovicci reads an excerpt. Read more