Essays audiobooks

Travels with a donkey in the cevennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" is a classic travel memoir written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book recounts Stevenson's journey through the Cévennes region of France in 1878. The author embarked on this trek with a donkey named Modestine, and the narrative captures the landscapes, people, and challenges encountered during the journey. Read more

Our Ghosts Were Once People

By: Bongani Kona (ed)

Narrated by: S K Tsubane, N Mayet, A Pearce, C Cosa, M Borai...

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: “Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died.”’ – Dela Gwala
Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own... Read more

A Hitch in Time

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills & James Wolcott

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared–a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking a further understanding of his brilliant mind.

Anthologized here for the first time, A Hitch in Time is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens’s finest reviews, diary entries, and essays–along with a smattering of... Read more

Fascism: What It Is And How To Fight It

By: Leon Trotsky

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar... Read more

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

By: Vladimir Lenin

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Russian:  Три источника и три составных части марксизма ) is an article written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and published in 1913. The article was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death. Read more

The Book of Pet Love and Loss

By: Sara Bader

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Janina Edwards, Gary Furlong &...

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of quotations by writers, leaders, and legends on the pain of losing a pet and overcoming grief.

An animal’s love is deep, uncomplicated, unconditional, and forgiving. “Affection without ambivalence” is how Sigmund Freud described the connection. “No matter how awful the day, or how awful I am behaving at any given moment,... Read more

Encounters with the Archdruid

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses—on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve,... Read more

Dialogue with a Somnambulist

By: Chloe Aridjis

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now presents her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy



Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided... Read more

Ways of Eating

By: Merry White & Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.



From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces listeners to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to... Read more

A Radiant Birth

By: Paul J. Willis & Leslie Leyland Fields

Narrated by: William Sarris & Kellye A. Saunders

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love." —Madeleine L'Engle



"At the birth of Jesus, an event of cosmic significance by which we humans still mark our calendars, the invisible and visible worlds come together." —Philip Yancey



"Help us to realize, as those who love and believe in you that we, too, are pregnant with Christ by the power of... Read more

El Príncipe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: Martín Quirós (voz sintética)

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

El Príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo es una obra clásica de la literatura política que ha perdurado a lo largo de los siglos. Publicado por primera vez en 1532, este tratado se ha convertido en una guía fundamental para los líderes y gobernantes de todo el mundo. En El Príncipe, Maquiavelo ofrece consejos y estrategias para aquellos que desean... Read more

Érase una vez en tu cerebro

By: Eduardo Vara

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Un apasionante viaje de la mano de la neurociencia y la ficción. El libro que tienes en tus manos te explicará qué pasa en tu cerebro cuando descubres una historia y por qué te entusiasmas con algunas y no con otras. ¿Cómo puede ser que simples letras te transporten a lugares remotos, desconocidos o incluso inexistentes? ¿Por qué hay personajes... Read more

A Parthenon in Pefki

By: Peter Barber

Narrated by: Christopher Kendrick

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

After perfecting their new apartment (complete with mini Parthenon) in a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens, Englishman Peter and his Greek wife Alexandra check out life in an authentic fishing village on a Greek island. They instantly fall in love with Pefki and plan to build a house there.But all is not as it seems. As Peter and his feisty wife... Read more

Notes From The Valley

By: Lynn Ferguson

Narrated by: Lynn Ferguson

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a journey through the messy and magnificent tapestry of real life with Scottish writer and performer Lynn Ferguson. In her debut collection of essays, "Notes from the Valley," Lynn invites you into her world in the San Fernando Valley, where she resides with her husband Mark, two sons, Arthur the dog, 10 chickens, and a buzzing... Read more

Winter's Playground

By: Timothy Whittenburg

Narrated by: James Wilson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover Whispers of Winter: A Journey Through Snow-Covered Memories
The pulse of adventure syncs with the crunch of fresh snow underfoot in this enchanting compendium, "Winter's Playground: Timeless Tales of Snowy Recreation." It captures the essence of winter sports and the soul in each snowflake. Dive into the evolution of skiing and... Read more

Small Fires

By: Rebecca May Johnson

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution, by a rising star in food writing

This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there... Read more

The Black Joy Project

By: Kleaver Cruz

Narrated by: Pascale Armand

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking and necessary love letter to a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, The Black Joy Project is Humans of New York meets The Black Book""A patchwork quilt of ... moments of triumph, antidotes to trauma narratives and rich, ebullient emotional and verbal spice for the soul."" – Michael W. Twitty, culinary and cultural... Read more

Люстрацыі наадварот

By: Аляксандар Лукашук

Narrated by: Аляксандар Лукашук

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Сэрыя эсэ, якія гучалі на хвалях "Радыё Свабода" восеньню 2013г. Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed... Read more

On the Nature of Things

By: Lucretius

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour, he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not... Read more

Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century. In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard aimed to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded... Read more

Seelenverwandte

By: Dankmar H. Isleib

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mensch, erhebe dich nicht über die Tiere! Sie sind sündlos, du aber mit deiner Erhabenheit befleckst die Erde" In Anbetracht dessen, was gerade heute, im Herbst des Jahres 2023 auf der Welt geschieht, kann man Dostojewski doch nur zustimmen. Allein mit Liebe kann man dem von Menschen gemachtem Chaos, dem Hass, der Dummheit begegnen. Wenn... Read more

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door

By: Gordon S. Jackson

Narrated by: Matthew Stuart Jackson

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Your Photo on God's Fridge Door is a compilation of 101 original and thought-provoking analogies and parables that serve as devotionals or illustrations for the more mature Christian. Each entry's originality provides the reader with fresh insights into his or her faith.The entries, drawn from topics like sports, politics, science and nature,... Read more