Essays audiobooks

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Essays

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's essays, read by Audie-award-winning actor Peter Noble.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States,... Read more

The Science of James Bond

By: Mark Brake

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Out-grossing Star Wars, Harry Potter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the world’s most iconic and international secret agent has a shelf life of almost six decades, from Dr. No to Spectre. As nuclear missile threats are replaced by a series of... Read more

Reflections

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and... Read more

The Braided River

By: Samrat Choudhury

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red... Read more

Life Lessons From the Amazon

By: Pip Stewart

Narrated by: Pip Stewart

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exhilarating from start to finish. Pip shares her unique knowledge of this jungle frontier and takes us on a journey of discovery through some of the harshest terrain on earth. An incredible adventure.” LEVISON WOOD
This is the tale of an epic three-month adventure through unexplored jungle terrain – and it might even change your life
Fuelled by... Read more

Ahora imagino cosas

By: Julián Herbert

Narrated by: Carlos Pimienta

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

<p style="text-align:center"><strong>«¿Herbert escribe memorias? ¿Ensayos? ¿Novelas? Sus libros son mash-ups de recuerdos, investigación y ornamentación ficcional, marcados por una cálida falta de respeto por los géneros -como es la vida.» The New York Times</strong></p> Si, como dijo... Read more

The Environmentalist's Dilemma

By: Arno Kopecky

Narrated by: Marvin Kaye

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity’s doing better than... Read more

Essays

By: Francis Bacon

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often... Read more

Madame Curie

By: Vinod Kumar Mishra

Narrated by: Ila Joshi

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

पोलैंड के एक अति सामान्य परिवार में जनमी मैडम क्यूरी, दुनिया के श्रेष्ठतम वैज्ञानिकों में से एक अपने आप में विलक्षण प्रतिभा थीं— फ्रांस की प्रथम डॉक्टरेट पानेवाली महिला दुनिया के किसी भी भाग में भौतिकी में डॉक्टरेट पानेवाली प्रथम महिला सोरबोन विश्वविद्यालय की पहली महिला प्रोफेसर भौतिकी में नोबल पुरस्कार पानेवाली प्रथम महिला दूसरा नोबल पुरस्कार... Read more

Contra la inocencia

By: Rafael Gumucio

Narrated by: Leandro Bianco

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Estar contra todo y todos parece la actitud más adolescente posible. Pero estar contra cualquier atisbo de totalitarismo, ya sea estético, subjetivo o político, resulta una tarea compleja. Y "Contra la inocencia" cumple a cabalidad ese objetivo. Pues en estos ensayos iconoclastas se hilvana una escritura fluida y aguda, a ratos íntima, que... Read more

Se Desha

By: ଡ. ପ୍ରସନ୍ନ କୁମାର ମହାନ୍ତି

Narrated by: କରୁଣାକର

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

ବରିଷ୍ଠ କବି ଡ. ପ୍ରସନ୍ନ କୁମାର ମହାନ୍ତିଙ୍କ ଆମେରିକା ଭ୍ରମଣର ଅନୁଭୂତିକୁ ନେଇ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ 'ସେ ଦେଶ'! ବହିଟି ପଢିଲାବେଳେ ମନେହୁଏ ଯେମିତି ଏହା ଏକ ଭ୍ରମଣ-ଉପନ୍ୟାସ! ଖୁବ ଅନ୍ତରଙ୍ଗ ଅନୁଭୂତିର ରୋଚକ ଉପସ୍ଥାପନା ପାଠକଙ୍କୁ ବିମୋହିତ କରିବା ସହ ଆମେରିକାର ସାଂସ୍କୃତିକ ଓ ସାମାଜିକ ବ୍ୟବସ୍ଥା ବାବଦରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଜ୍ଞାନ ବଢ଼ାଇଥାଏ! Read more

Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.



John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green... Read more

Her Daily Bread

By: Kate Wood

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate’s heart for food and people warm every page… truly, a comforting read for anyone with an appetite for loving others well.”– Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author of Dream Big and Live in GraceFrom the writer and photographer behind the award-winning Wood and Spoon blog comes a 365-day devotional, featuring daily reflections and 52... Read more

The New Negro

By: Alain Locke

Narrated by: York Whitaker, Robin Eller, Charon Normand-Widm...

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the... Read more

Ansichten der Natur

By: Alexander von Humboldt

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander von Humboldt zählt zu den bedeutendsten Naturforschern der neueren Geschichte. Seine Forschungsreisen führten Humboldt nach Lateinamerika, in die USA sowie nach Zentralasien. Die Resultate seiner wissenschaftlichen Studien führten zu Fortschritten in den unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen. Wissenschaftliche... Read more

Mundo enfermo

By: Diego Enrique Osorno

Narrated by: Jorge Badillo

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

«Bienvenidos a un Mundo Enfermo, una historia de terror que no lo parecerá.» Pere Ortín En este libro, una especie de autobiografía en clave viajera, Diego Enrique Osorno prueba su compromiso radical con la crónica y presenta una serie de testimonios y experiencias que conforman en conjunto una reflexión crítica y plural del siglo xxi. Así es... Read more

Hablemos de langostas

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

David Foster Wallace nos sorprende con un delirante y divertido libro de artículos. «Su voz brota de cada página, reforzando la corriente de pensamiento que defiende que es una especie de genio para cuyo arte todavía no se ha inventado una palabra». The Sunday Telegraph ¿Sienten miedo las langostas antes de ser devoradas? ¿Tenía Franz Kafka un... Read more

Viaje a la Alcarria seguido de Nuevo viaje a La Alcarria

By: Camilo José Cela

Narrated by: Nacho Béjar

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

El texto pionero de Cela sobre la España rural reunido con su continuación. Cela sintió siempre especial predilección por Viaje a la Alcarria (1948), que consideraba su libro «más sencillo, más inmediato y directo», y que constituye un modelo insuperable de prosa castellana. Con él renovó el género de la literatura de viajes, ejerciendo una... Read more

Crítica al poder presidencial

By: Enrique Krauze

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

«Krauze se ha distinguido por sus intervenciones a favor de la democracia y el debate para mejorar la vida pública de México. Ha sido un estadista ciudadano, con ánimo valiente frente al poder y la incomprensión.» Gabriel Zaid Para Enrique Krauze, la crítica al poder es un compromiso de larga data que se conecta con la aspiración de que logremos... Read more

Mothers, Fathers, and Others

By: Siri Hustvedt

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far... Read more

Even Brook Trout Get the Blues

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.

"Once an angler has become serious about the sport (and 'serious' is the word that's used), he'll never again have enough tackle or enough time to use it. And his nonangling friends and family may never... Read more

I Knew This Place - Abridged

By: John MacKenna

Narrated by: John MacKenna

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'I Knew This Place' by John MacKenna is a collection of twenty-eight of his radio essays from RTE's radio programme 'Sunday Miscellany.'

John MacKenna is the author of twenty-seven books both fiction and non-fiction. A skilled actor and narrator, he won a Jacob's Radio Award for his documentary about Leonard Cohen. The radio essays in this... Read more

Resignation Trilogy

By: J. Clark Allison

Narrated by: J. Clark Allison

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Three entertaining true stories reported by your intrepid food server from the front lines of the Great Resignation of 2021. Got a restaurant or other service business? Find out what not to do if you want to keep your current and future employees from leaving for greener pastures. It's not rocket science but has got a lot of you completely... Read more

Dāna: The Practice of Giving

By: Bhikkhu Bodhi

Narrated by: Judy Swift

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the teaching of the Buddha, the practice of giving claims a place of special eminence, one that singles it out as being in a sense the foundation and seed of spiritual development. This publication was compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi to explore this cardinal Buddhist virtue in greater depth by featuring essays in which four modern writers... Read more