Literary Criticism audiobooks

Instant Study Skills

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

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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

Instant Learning

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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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

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

Comedy Witze Humor - 8 Stunden Super Witze

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Über 8 Stunden ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum Tränen Lachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more

Chaucer

By: Marion Turner

Narrated by: Marion Turner

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life?yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they... Read more

Comedy Witze Humor - 8 Stunden Super Witze

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Über 8 Stunden ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum Tränen Lachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more

The Role of the Scroll

By: Thomas Forrest Kelly

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Role of the Scroll, Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses. Scrolls were the best way to keep ever-expanding lists, for example, those of debtors, knights, and the dead. While... Read more

The Book

By: Keith Houston

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows... Read more

The Trip to Echo Spring

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

OLIVIA LAING’S WIDELY ACCLAIMED ACCOUNT OF WHY SOME OF THE BEST LITERATURE HAS BEEN CREATED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISMIn The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America’s finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John... Read more

Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados con nuestras familias

By: Philip Gourevitch

Narrated by: John Alex Toro

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Un extraordinario reportaje, ganador de numerosos premios internacionales, sobre el genocidio ruandés. El 6 de abril de 1994, el avión del presidente de Ruanda fue abatido por un misil. Al día siguiente el gobierno animaba a la mayoría hutu a asesinar a sus vecinos tutsis junto con aquellos hutus que intentasen protegerlos. De este modo daba... Read more

The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

By: Ravish Kumar

Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many... Read more

Moving Foreword

By: Jon Chattman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A great foreword is more than just a few pages of self-indulgent frippery that comes before a book. A great foreword adds zest. It sets the stage for the page turner you're about to open, and perhaps even puts you in the locked room where a mystery happens or in the high-button shoes of a year gone by.



A great foreword—sometimes—is even better... Read more

Possessed by Memory

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.

Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues... Read more

Simply Eliot

By: Joseph Maddrey

Narrated by: Alex Lee

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Though he was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard University, at the age of 26, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) emigrated to England, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Influenced equally by his formative years in the New World and his experiences in London during and after World War I, Eliot strove to reconcile a... Read more

Verb Tenses

By: Ken Xiao & Urison Xiao

Narrated by: Ken Xiao

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

You have studied English for years, yet you still use the wrong tenses. You've tried many methods but you continue to make tense mistakes. You can read tenses, but when you speak or write, you're unsure of which tense to use.The good news is this is very normal.Ken was once like you, but now he can use the English tenses like a native. Urison is... Read more

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript

By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron

Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems—the best known of which is "Sir Gawain" and the "Green Knight".The... Read more

Pearl

By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron

Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish, grievously wounded by the power of my love for that spotless pearl of mine.’"Pearl" is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work... Read more

Cleanness

By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron

Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cleanness" is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme–the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean.The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of... Read more

Patience

By: Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron

Narrated by: Sarah Peverley & Joshua Lambie

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Patience" is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right.The poet’s usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and... Read more