Essays audiobooks

Teoría del viaje

By: Michel Onfray

Narrated by: Eugenio Gómez

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Una brillante hoja de ruta para quienes quieran sentirse viajeros, y no turistas. «Todo viaje es iniciático; de modo parecido, una iniciación no deja de ser un viaje.» Michel Onfray convierte el viajar, uno de los sencillos placeres de la vida, en un estimulante tema de reflexión. Además de ser una invitación a soltar amarras, este libro tiene... Read more

Home Is the Road

By: Diane Glancy

Narrated by: Kyla García

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home—its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us... Read more

On the Water

By: Guy de la Valdene

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On the Water is a gorgeously written collection of essays that all take place on or near the water and pay tribute to the flora and fauna associated with those ecosystems. There are essays about the finer points of tickling rainbow trout in the streams of Normandy, and of eagles and ospreys fishing for bass while barely breaking the surface of... Read more

Адвечным шляхам

By: Ігнат Абдзіраловіч

Narrated by: Людміла Сідарэвіч & Аляксандр Марчанка

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ідэі аўтара, сфармуляваныя яшчэ ў 1921 г., здольныя патрапіць у самае сэрца чытача – настолькі глыбінныя праблемы беларускай экзыстэнцыі яны закранаюць. Абдзіраловіч разглядае Беларусь як граніцу паміж Усходам і Захадам, а грунтоўнай адзнакай беларускай гісторыі бачыць духоўнае ваганьне паміж Усходам і Захадам. “Нам вельмі падабалася і цягнула... Read more

Essays, First Series

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Kenny Davis

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Essays, First Series" is a collection of essays by American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essays explore a variety of topics, including self-reliance, spiritual laws, friendship, and love.In the essay "Self-Reliance," Emerson advocates for the importance of individualism and the rejection of... Read more

¡Necesito un filósofo!

By: Scott Hershovitz

Narrated by: Guillermo Custodio

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Una aventura divertida e inteligente para abordar las grandes preguntas del universo con ayuda de reputados filósofos... y dos niños pequeños. Los más pequeños son filósofos excepcionales, pues se cuestionan constantemente aquello que los rodea e intentan descifrar el funcionamiento del mundo. Con sus dos hijos Rex y Hank como guías, el profesor... Read more

Undercooked

By: Dan Ahdoot

Narrated by: Dan Ahdoot

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man’s obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule—and sometimes ruin—his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network’s Raid the Fridge

“When most people say they have an unhealthy relationship with food, they mean they eat too much of it... Read more

This Wide Terraqueous World

By: Laird Hunt

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird Hunt uses fiction as an inspiration, a tool, even an obsession, employing its methods to get to the heart of experience. The “sizzling” work of Jane Bowles colors his wanderings through Palermo while a London museum trip provokes a consideration of taxidermy’s... Read more

El fuego de la libertad

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

Narrated by: Elsa Veiga

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE WEIL, AYN RAND Y HANNAH ARENDT, CUATRO FILÓSOFAS LEGENDARIAS QUE LUCHARON POR NUESTRA LIBERTAD EN TIEMPOS OSCUROS. «Qué manera tan desenfadada, tan gozosa, de escribir sobre filosofía al más alto nivel.»
SWR2 Lesenswert La emocionante historia de cuatro iconos mundiales que diseñaron un mundo nuevo en una época... Read more

Run Britain

By: Nick Butter

Narrated by: Nick Butter

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In the spring of 2021, as the UK's latest pandemic lockdowns were lifted, Nick Butter set out from the Eden Project to become the fastest person to cover ever mile of Britain's mainland coastline on foot. Battling the most extreme winds Britain had seen in 100 years, days of torrential rain and the unrelenting hills of... Read more

Cuestiones candentes

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Marta Moreno, Isa Puchol, Angi Sansón, Carme Ca...

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática. La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis... Read more

The Other Family Doctor

By: Karen Fine

Narrated by: Karen Fine

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Calling all animal lovers! A heartwarming memoir about one woman's career as a vet and the unique role pets play in our lives • “Filled with compassion and wisdom, Karen Fine is a healer whose own wounds have deepened her gifts for bringing animals and their people comfort and peace.” —Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul... Read more

Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

Narrated by: Dolly Alderton

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Nora... Read more

But Have You Read the Book?

By: Kristen Lopez

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration. 
 
“I love that movie!”
 
“But have you read the book?”
 
Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and... Read more

The Forest

By: Alexander Nemerov

Narrated by: Clarke Peters

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Clarke Peters shares a vivid historical imagining of the lives of individuals—from painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelers—in the early United StatesSet amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States, The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans... Read more

Letters to a Writer of Color

By: Deepa Anappara & Taymour Soomro

Narrated by: Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro & Full Cast

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work

“Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at... Read more

33 politische Situationen - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Navid Kermani

Narrated by: Navid Kermani & Sonia Mikich

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum ein Wort in Deutschland hat solches Gewicht: Der Träger des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels Navid Kermani hat sich zu einer der führenden intellektuellen Stimmen seiner Generation entwickelt. Wachsam wie zweifelnd beobachtet er die Gegenwart, berichtet aus Regionen, die nicht im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit stehen, und gibt der... Read more

La plata, la espada y la piedra

By: Marie Arana

Narrated by: Malena Rospigliosi Bonilla

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Una lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad. «Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y Marie Arana lo hace con precisión académica, rigor moral y elegancia de estilo. Para cualquiera que esté interesado en entender —entender de verdad— qué es América Latina... Read more

Le Devoir conjugal

By: Fanny Anseaume

Narrated by: Marina VanDyck

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La vague féministe déferle sur les réseaux sociaux, explose dans le monde du travail et pousse de plus en plus de femmes dans les rues (manifestations, collages...). Mais qu'en est-il de l'intime ? Est-ce que les notions féministes réussissent réellement à pénétrer la solide bulle du couple ? Est-ce que nous parvenons, après #metoo, à construire... Read more

They Call Me Weener

By: Trina Machacek

Narrated by: Trina Machacek

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

LIFE IS FULL OF QUESTIONS How do you pour the perfect glass of milk? Why are there Eskimos on the roof of the hospital in Nevada? Why would anyone happily accept being called Weener? Step into the head of Trina Machacek and find the answers to these and a cornucopia of life’s more interesting quandaries. Explore how to exercise in an elevator,... Read more

Astrología y Literatura

By: Claudia Aboaf

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La amistad entre Jorge Luis Borges y Xul Solar y entre Alejandra Pizarnik y Silvina Ocampo es interpretada en este ensayo experimental a partir de las cartas natales de los escritores, analizadas en sinastría, es decir, estudiadas en relación unas con otras, para revelar la belleza del hacer-con el otro. La autora combina saberes como la... Read more

Dupins Bretagne - Ein Reiseführer (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

Narrated by: Christian Berkel

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit über zehn Jahren ermittelt Kommissar Georges Dupin bereits in der Bretagne. Mit jedem neuen Fall verschlägt es ihn an einen anderen faszinierenden Ort dieser so vielfältigen Region. Mit dem Reiseführer Dupins Bretagne stellt Bestsellerautor Jean-Luc Bannalec die Schauplätze und Gegenden seiner Krimireihe vor und führt durch seine... Read more

"Wer Angst hat, soll zuhause bleiben!" - Poesie gegen Populismus (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Sarah Bosetti

Narrated by: Sarah Bosetti

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Bosetti hat einen Weg gefunden, die Demokratie zu retten: mit Poesie gegen Populismus! Wohin man schaut: Weltuntergang. Doch Klimawandel, Krieg und Krisen wären zu meistern, wenn die Menschen ihnen mit ehrlicher Vernunft begegnen würden. Im Kampf gegen Fake News, Diskriminierung und Diskursverschiebung nimmt Sarah Bosetti sich einige der... Read more

Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them.”—“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman There is a reason the words of Walt Whitman have persisted in American literature, in literature at large, for so long. He was not simply a man of his time, not just a writer for the moment. Whitman was a man of the people and a writer of the soul—the souls... Read more