Essays audiobooks

SterbeMund

By: Petra Frey

Narrated by: Petra Frey

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Petra Frey, Schauspielerin und Hospizbegleiterin erzählt von den anderen Momenten in der Sterbebegleitung. Humorvoll, herzlich und ein bisschen verrückt. Geschichten vom Tod, wie sie nur das Leben schreiben kann. Erleben Sie den filmreifen Abgang einer Bühnendiva, die berührende Erzählung einer verbotenen Liebe oder begleiten Sie den... Read more

Cooperación o extinción

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Germán Jaramillo & Diego Vélez García

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Una obra imprescindible para tomar conciencia y pasar a la acción. Cooperación o extinción es la última novedad del lingüista, filósofo, politólogo Noam Chomsky, también uno de los activistas más influyentes del mundo. En esta ocasión, se trata de una recopilación que nace de un llamado «Encuentro Chomsky» celebrado en Boston y dedicado a las... Read more

Germinal

By: Tania Tagle

Narrated by: Kerygma Flores

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Germinal es un ensayo que acompaña el proceso de traer a una persona a este mundo desde un entendimiento de la angustia y la belleza que eso implica. Un libro que conmueve y que abre espacio, también, para pensar cómo se insertan esos procesos en el pensamiento y la cultura y cómo podemos transformarlos Con un enfoque íntimo y auténtico Tania... Read more

¿Qué pasaría si...?

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Javier Lacroix

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Un audiolibro en el que el humor y la ciencia se unen para dar explicación a todo tipo de preguntas curiosas. ¿Qué pasaría si...? es un libro de divulgación científica en el que se recopilan algunos de los mejores posts así como otros nuevos elaborados a partir de las preguntas del blog de Randall Munroe, en el que responde a los lectores... Read more

A Hard Place to Leave

By: Marcia DeSanctis

Narrated by: Marcia DeSanctis

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer…a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived.” —Melissa Febos, The New York Times “DeSanctis encounters spies and love interests, but it’s her lushly polished writing that makes this book a joy to read.” —The... Read more

Somewhere We Are Human \ Donde somos humanos (Spanish edition)

By: Reyna Grande & Sonia Guiñansaca

Narrated by: Avi Roque, Christian Barillas, Diana Pou & Alej...

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos.Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta colección de ensayos, poesía y arte tiene como objetivo... Read more

Fieldwork

By: Iliana Regan

Narrated by: Iliana Regan

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn

By: Stoya

Narrated by: Stoya

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of systemic biases toward sex workers and how sexuality is reflected in society. She often points... Read more

Un antropólogo en Marte

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Luis García Márquez

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Considerado uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo, Oliver Sacks nos presenta en su último libro siete casos neurológicos que constituyen una profunda reflexión sobre la esencia de la identidad y los mecanismos del conocimiento. Un pintor que tras un accidente de coche deja de ver el color; un cirujano cuyos continuos tics y... Read more

Why Read

By: Will Self

Narrated by: Will Self

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Booker–shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literatureFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, Will Self’s Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature.Self takes us with him: from the... Read more

Too Much of Life

By: Clarice Lispector

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 23 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.“The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when they don’t.... Read more

On Becoming an American Writer

By: James Alan McPherson

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and... Read more

I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts

By: Kristin Chenoweth

Narrated by: Kristin Chenoweth & Melinda Sewak

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary.(How about some women, am I right?)From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, a book featuring philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure. Just... Read more

Was würde Orwell sagen?

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, der vor allem durch seine politischen Essays und Romane wie "1984" und "Animal Farm" bekannt wurde. Seine Essays zeichnen sich durch klare und präzise Sprache, scharfe Beobachtungen und eine unbeirrbare Haltung gegenüber Ungerechtigkeit und Unterdrückung aus. In seinen Essays setzte... Read more

Das Unabomber Manifest

By: Theodore Kaczynski

Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Aufsatz "Die Industriegesellschaft und ihre Zukunft" von Theodore Kaczynski einem amerikanischen Terroristen, auch besser bekannt als der UNABOMBER, hat einst in der Öffentlichkeit große Aufmerksamkeit erregt. In seinem Aufsatz, der 1995 durch die Washington Post veröffentlich wurde, kritisiert der ehemalige Mathematikprofessor die... Read more

Curso de escritura creativa

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Marcel Navarro

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

El curso de escritura creativa que Brandon Sanderson lleva casi dos décadas impartiendo en la universidad, por primera vez en formato libro. Curso de escritura creativa convierte en libro las clases que Brandon Sanderson lleva 16 años impartiendo anualmente en la Universidad Brigham Young, donde estudió. Él mismo dice que nunca ha dejado de... Read more

Sinnverweigerungen

By: Erich Dix

Narrated by: Erich Dix

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Sinnverweigerungen" bewegt sich der Autor gereimt und ungereimt im Bereich der Nonsensdichtung und geht dabei manchmal an die Grenzen der Logik und Sprache. Erich Dix liest aus seinen Büchern KLIRR-KLAR (2020), FLIRR-SINN (2017), WIRR-WAHR (2013) und IRR-WISCHE (2011). Read more

Fauna allzu menschlich

By: Erich Dix

Narrated by: Erich Dix

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Fauna allzu menschlich" behandelt der Autor wortspielerisch ungewöhnliche Probleme aus dem Alltag der Tiere. Erich Dix liest aus seinen Büchern KLIRR-KLAR (2020), FLIRR-SINN (2017), WIRR-WAHR (2013) und IRR-WISCHE (2011). Read more

Tongewitter

By: Erich Dix

Narrated by: Erich Dix

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tongewitter" ist ein Auslese musikbezogener Gedichte und Kurzgeschichten. Die Feststellung, ob es sich dabei um dichterische Planspiele am Rande der Realität oder um Gehirnzuckungen eines Flunkerers handelt, bleibt dem Hörer überlassen. Autor Erich Dix liest aus seinen Büchern KLIRR-KLAR (2020), FLIRR-SINN (2017), WIRR-WAHR (2013) und... Read more

Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy: The Short Stories includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 5 greatest short stories in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
The Coffee-House of Surat – A coffee-house... Read more

Physician on a Mission

By: Dr. James Veltmeyer

Narrated by: Vladimir F. Louissaint

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Physician on a Mission: Dr. Veltmeyer's Rx to Save America," Dr. James Veltmeyer offers his prescription for curing the deepening crisis of our American republic as it is brutally bombarded by cultural revolutionaries in our media and universities and globalist manipulators in New York, Washington, and Silicon Valley. In this book, Dr.... Read more

Master and Man

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“It seems a pity to give up what one is used to and accustomed to. But there's nothing to be done, I shall get used to the new things.”
It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to... Read more

Against the Written Word

By: Ian F. Svenonius

Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

If the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the omegaAgainst the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press; the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and booksellers from peddling their despicable wares.This book ushers in a new... Read more

Alibis

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Earphones Award–winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini.

"Edoardo Ballerini reads my books exceptionally well. He gets my pacing, the inflections of muted irony, the anxiety of loss, the search for meaning that my prose on paper isn’t always able to convey—he gets it all. He gets me. A writer couldn't be luckier." —Andre Aciman

A... Read more