Literary Criticism audiobooks

Fine Family

By: Gurcharan Das

Narrated by: Suyash Mohan

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Everything is lost in the transition, but when a son is born into the family, hopes revive of... Read more

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland’s greatest writers—Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father—“Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Tóibín’s... Read more

Astounding

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018""Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post“Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall... Read more

Saffron and Pearls - A Memoir of Family, Friendship & Heirloom Hyderabadi Recipes

By: Doreen Hassan

Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just where their roots lie; it is also the city that informs the way they lead their lives. Known and loved for their legendary hospitality for over four decades, Doreen and Peter Hassan have preserved a way of life, a culture and a cuisine with great affection and pride. Like generations before them, the... Read more

Comedy Witze Humor - Mega Schülerwitze Xxxl

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Voll danaben und trotzdem ins Schwarze. Fiese, gemeine und Böse witze. Ohne weiteres präsentiert und pausenlos serviert. Witze die zwischen den Ohren krachen. Read more

American Audacity

By: William Giraldi

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist. American Audacity gathers Giraldi's fierce and witty considerations of American writers and themes, including a never-before-published appreciation of James Baldwin and an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American... Read more

Reimagining Pakistan - Transforming A Dysfunctional Nuclear State

By: Husain Haqqani

Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a 'poorly imagined country'. Indeed, Pakistan has meant different things to different people since its birth seventy years ago. Armed with nuclear weapons and dominated by the military and militants, it is variously described around the world as 'dangerous', 'unstable', 'a terrorist incubator' and 'the... Read more

Doctor Who Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies & Esther Wane

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

How does an immortal deal with death? What kind of person makes the best Companion? Why does the Doctor say he and Freud "got on very well"? How do the Daleks and Cybermen reflect concerns about losing our humanity? And what can looking at an ancient Time Lord teach us about real human nature? Doctor Who Psychology: A Madman with a Box explores... Read more

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

By: Jessica Brody

Narrated by: Jessica Brody

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.

Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing.... Read more

Feluda@50

By: Boria Majumdar

Narrated by: Nitin Bhattacharya

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1965, Satyajit Ray, drawing from the detective tradition made popular by characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, created a character who would go on to influence Bengalis of an entire generation: Feluda. And when Soumitra Chatterjee played the dapper detective in the film Sonar Kella, a cult was born. Fifty years later, the... Read more

Comedy Witze Humor - Geile Witze

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Voll danaben und trotzdem ins Schwarze. Fiese, gemeine und Böse witze. Ohne weiteres präsentiert und pausenlos serviert. Witze die zwischen den Ohren krachen. Read more

Limbo (Unabridged)

By: Dan Fox

Narrated by: Dan Fox

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fusing memoir with a meditation on creative block and a cultural history of limbo, Dan Fox considers the role that fallow periods and states of inbetween play in art and life. Limbo is an essay about... Read more

Kuka Harry Potter?

By: Tomi Kontio

Narrated by: Juha-Pekka Mikkola

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Potterin maailma kiehtoo juuri nyt. Tässä teoksessa etsitään vastauksia kysymyksiin: Millainen poika on Harry Potter ja millaista poikakuvaa Harry edustaa? Millaisia ovat tytöt Potterin ja fantasian maailmassa? Kuinka Potter-kirjoista tuli ilmiö ja kuinka se tuotteistettiin palvelemaan elokuvaa, fanikulttuuria ja musiikkia? Kirjassa... Read more

The Gatsby Affair

By: Kendall Taylor

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal That Shaped an American Classic, Kendall Taylor examines the dalliance between the southern belle and the French pilot from a fresh perspective. Drawing on conversations and correspondence with Jozan's daughter, as well as materials from the Jozan family archives, Taylor sheds new light on... Read more

Comedy Witze Humor - Richtig fiese Witze

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ekelhaft gute Witze - Mit Anlauf voll auf die 12. Laufen lassen und Spaß haben. Fiese, gemeine und Böse witze. Ohne weiteres präsentiert und pausenlos serviert. Witze die zwischen den Ohren krachen. Read more

Star Trek Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer & Natasha Soudek

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The next entry in Sterling's Popular Culture Psychology series features twenty chapters and exclusive interviews with cast members and Rod Roddenberry. In a fun and accessible way, Star Trek Psychology delves deep into the psyches of the show's well-known and beloved characters. The trailblazing franchise spans five TV series, thirteen films,... Read more

Does He Know A Mother's Heart

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Richard Joel

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

'Arun's brilliance and insight come to the fore when he takes his specific personal situation and turns it into a discussion on the larger questions that humankind has been grappling with over the ages' – N.R. Narayana Murthy 'It is for this book that Arun will be remembered the most. It moved me to tears …' -Dr R.A. Mashelkar A child is in... Read more

Transcendence : My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji

By: APJ Abdul Kalam & Arun Tiwari

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pramukh Swamiji, one of the most inspiring spiritual leaders of modern times and the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, is the inheritor of a legacy of enlightened gurus that goes back to the early nineteenth century. Pramukh Swamiji became, through a chance meeting, friend to one of India's most eminent citizens, the eleventh... Read more

Don't Disturb the Dead - The Story of the Ramsay Brothers

By: Shamya Dasgupta

Narrated by: Sumit Kaul

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows about the Ramsays – even those who have never watched a Ramsay film. But who were they really? Where did they come from? Why did they make the films they did? And how? How, really, did they pull it off? In India, the Ramsay name remains synonymous with horror movies. Still, all these decades later. Don't Disturb the Dead is the... Read more

Cómo Mejorar tu Memoria

By: Anthony Heston

Narrated by: Ernesto Tesot

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Qué tan diferente sería tu vida si fueras capaz de recordar información y aprender cosas nuevas sin mucho esfuerzo?
A lo largo de tu vida, probablemente hayas notado que había unos pocos grupos selectos de personas que probablemente pensabas que eran muy seguros de sí mismos, inteligentes y exitosos.
Nos han hecho creer que lo que distingue a la... Read more

Falstaff

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays: Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads, him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him—some innocent, some cruel. Falstaff can be lewd,... Read more

Gift of Dane - Volume One

By: David C. Baxter

Narrated by: Jeffrey James Fulton

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dane and his friends use to live on a quiet, suburban street until a storm rolled in, and they learned their neighbor was a mad scientist. The portal in his lab has chosen them. Now an insane, rogue commander and otherworldly creatures are after them and what is on the other side of the portal. Read more

He Held Radical Light

By: Christian Wiman

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and... Read more

Slim

By: Diego Enrique Osorno

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo & Diego Enrique Osorno

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Puede uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo ser una buena persona? «La biografía más completa de Carlos Slim hasta la fecha. Osorno narra también partes desconocidas de la historia familiar del magnate: el hambre de éxito del multimillonario no muestra signos de disminuir con la edad» The Guardian «Un recorrido analítico por distintas etapas... Read more