Essays audiobooks

Review of Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Andrea Karola

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

IT is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett's unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator's preface and notes is to tone down the book's ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date... Read more

El animal inferior

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Benjamín Urbina

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

El animal inferior incluye cuatro textos ingeniosos y desopilantes de Mark Twain traducidos especialmente para los lectores latinoamericanos. Estos nos presentan un llamado a la desobediencia de las niñas, un candidato presidencial tan perverso que saca réditos políticos de ello, un científico que comprueba que el hombre es el peor animal y un... Read more

You Deserve Good Gelato

By: Kacie Rose

Narrated by: Kacie Rose

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this funny and honest feel-good memoir, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad.

In 2021, Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy – and she never looked back. Okay, that isn't strictly true… In You Deserve Good... Read more

Las deliciosas historias de la taberna Kamogawa (Taberna Kamogawa 2)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Una nueva entrega del fenómeno del cosy crime japonés que ha seducido a miles de lectores Un misterioso anuncio de una sola línea en una revista culinaria, sin número de teléfono ni dirección: ¡quienes deseen visitar la taberna Kamogawa tienen que confiar en un toque de magia para llegar hasta ella! Solo los asiduos y los curiosos, guiados por... Read more

The Headmaster

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was a delight to re-read and record The Headmaster. My Deerfield days came back to me in a great rush. ... So much of Mr. Boyden's teaching focused on what boys needed to grow up to be adults in society, with a particular emphasis on giving back to the community.” —Edoardo Ballerini

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment... Read more

(R)évolution de conscience(s) – Politique et spiritualité

By: Lionel Cruzille

Narrated by: Lionel Cruzille

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Quel point commun y a-t-il entre spiritualité, médias et politique ? L'attention. Médias, industriels et politiques se l'arrachent, c'est le célèbre « temps de cerveaux disponible ». Or l'attention est la clé de notre liberté intérieure. C'est aussi le cœur même de toute vie spirituelle. Dès lors, comment, dans ce monde où notre vigilance est... Read more

Frying Pork Chops Naked

By: Eric Litsky

Narrated by: Eric Litsky

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric Litsky brings us on a funny, rollicking, heartfelt trip down memory lane, from coming of age adventures, to growing up and still being the free-spirited and roguish adult that keeps the neighborhood on its toes.By all counts, you could say Eric Litsky had a pretty standard freewheeling childhood. Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was... Read more

The Parva Naturalia. On Memory

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On Memory is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia. The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts... Read more

On Life and Death

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"On Life and Death" is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, which was included in the collection Parva Naturalia ("short treatises on nature"). The collection consists of seven essays discussing various natural phenomena related to the body and soul.  The culmination of Aristotle's "Parva Naturalia" is the definition of the... Read more

More Home Cooking

By: Laurie Colwin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small culinary accomplishments and discoveries that occur in her kitchen” (Chicago Tribune). Lucky... Read more

The Art of Dying

By: Peter Schjeldahl

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra... Read more

My Mets Bible

By: Evan Roberts

Narrated by: Evan Roberts

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Love Letter To New York Mets Fandom—the triumphs, the heartbreak, and everything in between.Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring... Read more

Baseball: The Movie

By: Noah Gittell

Narrated by: Noah Gittell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and... Read more

Altern - Leben, Band 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Elke Heidenreich

Narrated by: Elke Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will alt sein. Der Widerspruch ist absurd, das Leiden daran real. Wie lernen wir, so gut wie möglich damit zurechtzukommen? Geht das, alt werden und ein erfülltes Leben führen? Mit ihren über 80 Jahren hat sich Elke Heidenreich mit dem Altwerden beschäftigt. Herausgekommen ist dabei ein Buch, wie nur sie es... Read more

Schlafen - Leben, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

By: Theresia Enzensberger

Narrated by: Theresia Enzensberger

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Theresia Enzensberger kann nicht schlafen. Also schreibt sie ein Buch über den Schlaf und folgt dabei den verschiedenen Stadien, die wir in der Nacht durchleben. So beginnt sie in der zähneknirschenden Leichtschlafphase mit einem Essay über die Moralisierung von Schlaf, Traum als politische Metapher und die Folgen allgemeinen Schlafmangels. Fast... Read more

Les Dictateurs - Partie I - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie III - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Les dictateurs - Partie II - Abridged

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Qu'elles soient anciennes ou plus récentes, les dictatures, comme le note Jacques Bainville, sont le plus souvent imposées par les circonstances. L'académicien s'intéresse ainsi dans ce volume aux causes qui, à travers l'Histoire, ont permis l'essor des dictatures les plus remarquables, diverses dans leurs formes mais possédant toutes des points... Read more

Harry Would Be So Proud

By: Eric V. Litsky

Narrated by: Eric V. Litsky

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever looked back and pondered about how you became the person you are today? Scattered throughout our lives are snippets of memories, perhaps the warm glow of nostalgia, mixed with the twinge of loss… and if you’re lucky, some of those memories are as hysterically funny and equally heartwarming as this book’s trip down memory lane.In... Read more

I Could Live Here

By: Ellen Barone

Narrated by: Ellen Barone

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen Barone and her husband, Hank, are living a comfortable, creative life when they learn their rented house has sold. With no immediate solution, they hatch a plan to live in Mexico for the length of a visitor visa. They then move to Nicaragua. Then Ecuador …What ensues over the next decade of long-stay travel, as they migrate from one... Read more

Cold Kitchen

By: Caroline Eden

Narrated by: Caroline Eden

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Cold Kitchen written and read by Caroline Eden.

A Financial Times and Observer "best summer read"

'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary. Offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives... Read more

Cypria

By: Alex Christofi

Narrated by: Alex Christofi

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Cypria written and read by Alex Christofi.

"A brilliant exploration of Cyprus’s long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." — Guardian

"Poetic...Compelling" — New Statesman

One of National Geographic's Summer Reads 2024

Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the... Read more

A Black Girl in the Middle

By: Shenequa Golding

Narrated by: Aure Nash

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist

“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I’m a big, bold woman.”

Shenequa Golding doesn’t aim to speak for all Black women. We’re too vast, too vibrant, and too... Read more

На золотих богів

By: Григорій Косинка

Narrated by: Артем Окороков

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Григорія Косинку можна назвати одним із найсамобутніших митців лірико-імпресіоністичної прози початку ХХ ст. У його творчості органічно переплелися імпресіоністичні, реалістичні, експресіоністичні стильові тенденції. Талант Григорія Косинки найяскравіше розвинувся в жанрі новели. У новелі «На золотих богів» відтворюється боротьба за селянську... Read more