Literary Criticism audiobooks

Capitale de la douleur de Paul Éluard (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Irène Lazzari

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Capitale de la douleur de Paul Éluard avec l'analyse du Petit Littéraire ! Que faut-il retenir de Capitale de la douleur, cette expérience poétique innovante ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : • Un résumé complet • Des éclairages... Read more

Shakespeare and the Afterlife

By: John S. Garrison

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake... Read more

Cuba on the Verge

By: Leila Guerriero

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Lorenzo Irizarry

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation—from inside and out.Change looms in Cuba.Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much as it confounds. Images of the Buena Vista Social Club, wild... Read more

Philomina Fröhlich

By: Miriam Mack

Narrated by: Jasmin Shaudeen

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Tauche ein in die Welt von Philomina Fröhlich. Philomina ist ein ganz besonderes Mädchen. Eines Tages erfährt sie von ihrer Großmutter, dass sie die magische Gabe des Traumwünschens besitzt. Dadurch verändert sich ihr Leben schlagartig. Mit ihrem ersten Wunsch will sie sich ihren größten Traum erfüllen und ihre Lieblingspuppe zum Leben... Read more

To Shape a New World

By: Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Mi...

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political... Read more

The Man Who Would Be Sherlock

By: Christopher Sandford

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes.

Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice... Read more

Amigas

By: Sergio González Rodríguez

Narrated by: Nicolás Villanueva

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

En este libro, González Rodríguez narra cómo, a partir de una conversación con una compañera de trabajo, le fue posible corroborar la teoría del investigador Robert Wright, quien defiende el papel del impulso reproductivo en los distintos intereses amorosos de hombres y mujeres, pero también nos comparte sus memorias de un acercamiento... Read more

Comparative Literature

By: Ben Hutchinson

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at "comparison" have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its... Read more

All for Bc

By: Barbara Hagen

Narrated by: Ryan Fox

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

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Othello

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Annina Rubinstein

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Vuonna 1603 ilmestynyt Othello on eräs Shakespearen tiukimmin rakentuneista draamoista. Tarinaa ajaa eteenpäin jääkylmän juonitteleva paholaishahmo, Jago.Tarina alkaa, kun Jago kokee tulleensa ylikävellyksi Othellon nimetessä Cassion luutnantiksi. Othello, jolta tragedia saa nimensä, on pohjoisafrikkalaislähtöinen kenraali Venetsian... Read more

The Great American Read: The Book of Books

By: PBS

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.
What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100... Read more

Cleopatra

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascinated readers and audiences for centuries... Read more

Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold

By: William Shakespeare & James Anthony

Narrated by: Paapa Essiedu, James Anthony & Stephen Fry

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand
 
James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs. This drew him to the rewarding 14-line... Read more

The Poetic Edda

By: Jackson Crawford

Narrated by: Jackson Crawford

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of... Read more

One Can See Differently by E. C.

By: Eugene St Martin Jr

Narrated by: Tom Bauer

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A journal of my life this year as I go about my life to church, to work, to teaching, to play, and to visiting friends. The first chapter is a story of the spring. The second chapter is like a sketchbook or a glimpse into a journal. There are reflections and prayers and wishes. The ideas from church are ideas I heard from the priests. It is... Read more

Heinrich von Kleist / Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden / Über das Marionettentheater

By: Heinrich von Kleist

Narrated by: Richard Heinrich

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Heinrich von Kleist / Zwei Essays Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden Über das Marionettentheater gesprochen von Richard Heinrich. Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden: ist ein Aufsatz des Schriftstellers Heinrich von Kleist, der wahrscheinlich in dessen Königsberger Zeit (1805–06)... Read more

Comedy Witze Humor - 2 Stunden Dicke Witze

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Ultra viele zweifelhafte Witze zum ablachen. Comedy, Witze und Humor als Megapack des zweifelhaften Geschmacks. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herrinnen, hier bekommt ihr guter Geschmack Beulen. Read more

دافنشي وذكريات الطفولة

By: سيجموند فرويد

Narrated by: رشا كسار

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

عندما يقع بين يديك كتاب ل" سيجموند فرويد" فإنَّك على الأغلب لن تتركه أبدًا وسيحدث في عقلك وروحك الكثير من التغييرات، إذن تخيل أن يكون هذا الكتاب عن الفنان العبقري "ليوناردو دافنشي" !! من جملةٍ بسيطة قالها دافنشي ذات مرة ينطلق فرويد إلى مداخله فيحلّل نفسيته كطفل، فقد روى دافنشي ذات مرة حلمًا راوده أو حقيقةً ارتسمت في خياله فقال : "كذكرى مبكرة... Read more

Anthony Powell

By: Hilary Spurling

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.

Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic... Read more

Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4

By: Tim Key

Narrated by: Tim Key & Tom Basden

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered just how much of life you can understand through poetry?

Tim Key is never far from stage and screen - from Peep Show to Alpha Papa to Taskmaster. But now he's back doing what he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting his friend and musician, the equally brilliant, and long suffering, Tom Basden.

From ruminating on... Read more

Persona non grata

By: Jorge Edwards

Narrated by: José Miguel Gallardo

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

La experiencia del autor en La Habana como representante del gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1971.
Jorge Edwards fue el primer escritor latinoamericano en notar que algo iba irremediablemente mal en la Revolución cubana. Las ilusiones románticas de la primera etapa, que despertaron la esperanza de las masas latinoamericanas y de los... Read more

The Scoop on Ice-Cream Headaches

By: Serena Gordon

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A young girl did her own research on this subject . . . and it was published in a medical journal! Read more

Night

By: Adrian Daray

Narrated by: Adrian Daray

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In eine abgelegene Kleinstadt, irgendwo in Mexiko, verschlägt es die beiden Touristen Pete und Charlie aus New York. Ihr Ziel ist es Urlaub zu machen, um von ihren stressigen Jobs als Anwalt und Versicherungsagent etwas Abstand zu gewinnen. Doch was sie vorfinden ist etwas völlig anderes. Die ganze Umgebung scheint sich freiwillig zu evakuieren,... Read more

The Anna Karenina Fix

By: Viv Groskop

Narrated by: Julia Knippen

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your... Read more