Essays audiobooks

OFFBEAT

By: Sajish Gangadharan

Narrated by: Sajish Gangadharan

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

സജീഷ് ഗംഗാധരൻ ഉത്തരാഖണ്ഡിലെ ഗഢ്‌വാൾ പ്രദേശത്തിൻ്റെ വ്യത്യസ്തമായ ഒരു മുഖമാണ് ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിലൂടെ നമുക്ക് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്നത്. പല കാലങ്ങളിലെ സഞ്ചാരങ്ങൾക്കിടയിൽ അദ്ദേഹം പോയ ഇടങ്ങളും, പരിചയപ്പെട്ട ആളുകളും, അവർ പറഞ്ഞ കഥകളും ഇരുപത് മനോഹര അധ്യായങ്ങളായി കോറിയിട്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ്. ഗഢ്‌വാൾ ഗ്രാമങ്ങളിലെ ജീവിത രീതികളും, അവരുടെ വിശ്വാസങ്ങളും, തീർത്ഥാടന... Read more

Try Anarchism for Life

By: Cindy Barukh Milstein

Narrated by: Bea Flowers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Try Anarchism for Life revolves around a thought experiment: What are some of the many beautiful dimensions of anarchism? In reply, it blends gorgeous circle A drawings by twenty-six artists with Milstein’s words, forming picture-prose that are at once inviting and playful, poignant and dreamy. The pieces encourage us to notice and expand on... Read more

¿Quién manda aquí?

By: Javier Moreno

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Los presidentes en Latinoamérica tienen muchísimo poder… para emboscar a sus rivales, complotar, ocultar y robar. Pero, contra lo que suele creerse, disponen de muy poco margen de maniobra para hacer el bien. ¿Quién ha logrado reducir de forma sustancial los índices de violencia, por ejemplo? ¿Alguien ha conseguido acabar con el crimen... Read more

Wohnen - Leben, Band 5 (ungekürzt)

By: Doris Dörrie

Narrated by: Doris Dörrie

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Doris Dörrie ist eine Wohnende wider Willen. Nie wollte sie sich niederlassen, fest einrichten, Wurzeln schlagen, aber wie andere wohnen, hat sie immer schon fasziniert. In Kalifornien geht sie zu Hausbesichtigungen, nur um sich andere Leben in anderen Räumen auszumalen. Auf ihren unzähligen Reisen nach Japan, Mexiko, Marokko, Amerika und... Read more

The Snarling Girl and Other Essays

By: Elisa Albert

Narrated by: Elisa Albert

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos of punk, all in the midst of making a home in the strange city of Albany, New York.



With wit and wariness, skepticism and surrender, this... Read more

Just A Dream

By: B.A. Bradley

Narrated by: Brad Derry

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

📖 Author: B.A. Bradley🎙️ Narrator: Brad Derry📚 Publisher: Audiobook Publishing ServicesEmbark on a passionate journey through Italy, England, Spain, and Canada in Just A Dream: Love in Pursuit, a captivating travel romance memoir by B.A. Bradley.During an unforgettable stay at a picturesque Italian BnB, Bradley’s chance encounter with a stranger... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk «Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung» verwirft Arthur Schopenhauer jede Form von Glücklehre und entwickelt aus einem einzigen genialen Gedanken heraus eine denkbar pessimistische Sicht auf das Dasein als solches und eine Lehre von der Verneinung des Willens zum Leben. Kaum an einer anderen Stelle in seinem Werk... Read more

Die Philosophie der Freiheit

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In der ›Die Philosophie der Freiheit‹ (Erstausgabe 1894, umgearbeitete und erweiterte Neuausgabe 1918) entwarf Steiner, ausgehend von seiner Deutung Goethes und des Deutschen Idealismus sowie in enger Verwandtschaft mit dem Individualismus Nietzsches und Stirners, eine systematische Rechtfertigung der inneren Erfahrung als legitimer Methode... Read more

MY WAY. A Journey Through Life from Johannesburg to Cape Town.

By: Marina E. di Cervini

Narrated by: Sara Simmons

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

 Marina E. di Cervini is a distinguished writer, documentary producer, speaker, lawyer, and coach with over three decades of expertise in storytelling. Her work reflects an enduring commitment to fostering understanding and inspiring transformation. As a participant in the historic COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Marina’s... Read more

Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Declan McHugh

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry David Thoreau’s Walking is a profound meditation on nature, freedom, and self-discovery. Originally published in 1862, this classic essay explores the philosophy of walking as both a physical and spiritual act, emphasizing the importance of immersing oneself in the wild, untamed beauty of the natural world. Thoreau argues that walking is... Read more

Academic Inferno

By: Virgil Henry

Narrated by: Paul McGuigan

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Adjunct Hell, where second-class teachers do first-class work.A 30-year veteran of higher-education, Professor Virgil Henry uses Dante's Inferno as a guide to take readers on an epic adventure through the hellscape of higher education in the United States.Follow Virgil and his band of like-minded adjuncts as they battle educational... Read more

Why I Hate Riding the Bus So Much

By: Amir Rimer

Narrated by: Amir Rimer

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever found yourself trapped next to an overenthusiastic "Office Guy" yelling about his missing printer ink? Or maybe you've had the pleasure of being serenaded by a "No-Headphones Kid" blasting music straight from the depths of sonic hell?In Why I Hate Riding the Bus So Much, Amir Rimer takes you on a laugh-out-loud journey through the... Read more

The Umpire Strikes Back

By: David Fisher & Ron Luciano

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Luciano takes you out on the ballfield and into the clubhouse in the biggest and funniest baseball bestseller ever!Here is Ron Luciano, the funniest ump ever to call balls and strikes. A huge and awesome legend who leaps and spins and shoots players with an index finger while screaming OUTOUTOUT!!! Now baseball’s flamboyant fan-on-the-field... Read more

Wired Our Own Way

By: Jen Wallace, Liam Coulson, Nuala O'Connor, Jane...

Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson & Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and insightful anthology of personal essays by Irish autistic adults. Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults. One in twenty-seven Irish school children are now diagnosed as autistic, and autism is entering the general population’s consciousness... Read more

Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year Of Water And Fire

By: South China Morning Post Team

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim & Chike Chan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

South China Morning Post's (SCMP) reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-government movement in 2019 left no aspect of the city untouched, from its social compact to its body politic to its open... Read more

This Could Be Home: Raffles Hotel and the City of Tomorrow

By: Pico Iyer

Narrated by: Pico Iyer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

No hotel is as inseparably linked to its city than Raffles Hotel, writes Pico Iyer, arguably the world's greatest travel writer alive. Drawing upon numerous stays in Raffles over 35 years and the fast-ascending city all around it, Iyer—a lifelong global soul—reflects on the "Grand Old Lady's" literary legacy and its mark on writers everywhere.... Read more

Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

By: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

Narrated by: Millie Phuah

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this era of the climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine. This book is... Read more

In Green

By: Louis D. Hall

Narrated by: Louis D. Hall & Kiki Ho

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'A classic adventure narrative in the vein of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Robert Louis Stevenson... life-changing' CAL FLYN, author of Islands of Abandonment I need to ride now, to explore, to uncover more life; to reach strangers, to feel danger and to learn; to share this old, slow way, with man’s patient, most forgiving and most loyal friend –... Read more

Amistad

By: Jacobo Bergareche & Mariano Sigman

Narrated by: Jacobo Bergareche & Mariano Sigman

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Un fascinante ensayo sobre la amistad. «Sin amigos nadie querría vivir, aunque tuviera todos los otros bienes», escribió Aristóteles. Sin embargo, si bien la amistad es desde tiempos inmemoriales una de las aspiraciones fundamentales de la vida, no solemos reflexionar sobre su naturaleza. ¿Cómo se hace un amigo? ¿Por qué algunas personas nos... Read more

Conversations of Socrates

By: Xenophon

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also... Read more

The Lantern Bearers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Robin Laing

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'The essence of this bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night, the slide shut, the top-coat buttoned, not a ray escaping, whether to conduct your footsteps or to make your glory public – a mere pillar of darkness in the dark; and all the while, deep down in the privacy of your fool's heart, to know you had a bull's-eye at your belt, and... Read more

A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

'I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.' One of the most-studied pieces of satire... Read more

Death of a Moth

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

n this hauntingly poetic essay, Virginia Woolf captures the fragile beauty of life and death through the simple image of a moth struggling in the light. As she reflects on the inevitability of mortality and the quiet force of nature, Woolf's sharp, introspective prose invites readers to confront their own fleeting existence. The Death of the... Read more

Arbeiten - Leben, Band 6 (ungekürzt)

By: Heike Geißler

Narrated by: Heike Geißler

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist ein Mensch wert? Wie ermessen sich Nutzen und Kosten einer Person? Heike Geißler denkt über den Sinn der Arbeit nach, über materielle und unsichtbare Arbeit, über Geben und Nehmen, Gewinner und Verlierer. Der Arbeit auf der Spur, beobachtet sie ihr Umfeld und kommt mit den unterschiedlichsten Menschen ins Gespräch: mit dem Immobilienhai... Read more