Literary Criticism audiobooks

An Odyssey

By: Daniel Mendelsohn

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday
A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's... Read more

How to Write a Novella in a Week

By: HowExpert & Kristopher Trujillo

Narrated by: Bob D

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to write a novella quickly, then get this step by step guide.- This book is different.- This book is hard body.This particular how to is specifically designed to open up alternate paths of thinking in one's brain.In terms of writing a novella, as long as success is the end result, the methodologies utilized to reach... Read more

At the Strangers' Gate

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s.

When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and... Read more

Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!

By: Pat Mills

Narrated by: Pat Mills

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As 2000AD and Judge Dredd celebrates its 45th birthday in 2022, Pat Mills at last writes the definitive history of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, and the turbulent, extraordinary and exciting events that shaped it.Pat Mills is the creator of 2000AD and one of the comic’s top writers. He is also the creator of Action, co-creator of Battle, Misty,... Read more

Parcourir l'histoire, vol. 1

By: Anne-Marie Deraspe

Narrated by: Michel Keable

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Notre ancêtre Homo sapiens était nomade. Ses descendants ont vagabondé longtemps sur la planète avant d’habiter un domicile fixe. Pourquoi l’ont-ils fait? Pourquoi les premiers agriculteurs ont-ils ensuite peiné pour faire pousser du blé et finalement domestiquer des bêtes, alors que les céréales sauvages et les animaux de chasse abondaient sur... Read more

Otto Binder

By: Bill Schelly

Narrated by: Derek Botten

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl, Captain Marvel, and Superman comics. As the originator of the first sentient robot in literature ("I, Robot," published in Amazing Stories in 1939 and predating Isaac Asimov's... Read more

The Futilitarians

By: Anne Gisleson

Narrated by: Anne Gisleson

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief.

Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own... Read more

The World Broke in Two

By: Bill Goldstein

Narrated by: Bill Goldstein

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism


The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf,... Read more

Wild Things

By: Bruce Handy

Narrated by: Bruce Handy

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book, was published in Boston. Offering children gems of advice such as "Strive to learn" and "Be not a dunce," it was no fun at all. So how did we get from there to "Let the wild rumpus start"? And now that we're living in a golden age of children's literature,... Read more

Les sept nuits de la reine

By: Christiane Singer

Narrated by: Christiane Singer

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Une femme se raconte en sept nuits : de la première alors qu’elle veille sa mère qui va mourir et que lui revient le souvenir de ses 7 ans à Berlin en 1943 quand avec cette mère jeune, belle et intrépide elle traverse la ville en ruines pour rencontrer dans une prison ce père qu’elle ne connaissait pas, à la presque dernière ce sont des nuits... Read more

Morningstar

By: Ann Hood

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book that Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction.



Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn't foster the love of literature, Hood... Read more

From Holmes to Sherlock

By: Mattias Boström

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In From Holmes to Sherlock, Mattias Boström recreates the full story behind the legendary detective and his many incarnations—a real-life narrative of success, tragedy, and family secrets that has never previously been told in its entirety. The beginning is classic: a young Arthur Conan Doyle sitting in a Scottish lecture hall taking notes on... Read more

Rachel Renée Russell, Dork Diaries

By: Rachel Renée Russell

Narrated by: Sonia Manzano

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Dork Diaries stops by to discuss her New York Times bestselling series with Sonia Manzano. The series follows Nikki Maxwell as she chronicles her life through hilarious stories and art in her illustrated diaries. Read more

John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: John Luther Adams

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Longtime collaborators John Luther Adams and author Barry Lopez discuss their work, which explores environmental concerns and the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture. With a reading of Lopez's essay "The Invitation" by James Naughton. Read more

Equipment for Living

By: Michael Robbins

Narrated by: Rudy Sanda

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

How can art help us make sense of the world? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all.



Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins's mastery of poetry and popular music shines in... Read more

A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Alice Johnson

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Little Princess" is a beloved classic of English children's literature. Captain Crewe, a wealthy young English widower, enrolls his seven-year-old daughter Sara, who has been living in India, at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, in order to prepare her for a future life in society. Crewe dotes on his daughter, ordering and... Read more

Colm Toibin Sees the ‘Origin of All Civil Wars’ in this Greek Tragedy

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the new novel House of Names, one of today's leading contemporary writers looks back to the Trojan War and Greek mythology for inspiration. Colm Toibin joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss why he wanted to write a novel about a family drama in ancient Greece and the connection to civil wars in our own time. Read more

The Many Lives of Catwoman

By: Tim Hanley

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than seventy-five years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains, and damsels in distress. Her relentless independence across comic books, television, and film set her apart from the rest of the superhero world. When female-led comics were few and far between, Catwoman headlined her... Read more

A war-crime mystery drives Scott Turow's newest thriller

By: Scott Turow

Narrated by: Scott Turow & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Testimony, a new legal thriller by bestselling author and attorney Scott Turow, centers around a mass killing in Bosnia and subsequent war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Turow joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his inspiration and the research that went into his new work. Read more

For Alan Alda, the heart of good communication

By: Alan Alda

Narrated by: Alan Alda & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As an actor, educational TV host and founder of a scholarly center for communication science, Alan Alda has used his trademark humor and wit to help others express complicated ideas in accessible language. Now he's written new book called If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face? Alda sits down with Jeffrey Brown to offer a lesson... Read more

David Sedaris' Diaries Paint a Life Spent in Observation

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris & Jeffrey Brown

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Who was humorist David Sedaris before he had sold millions of books and made countless live appearances before adoring audiences? In a new book, Theft By Finding, Sedaris offers a portrait of himself as a younger artist through his personal diaries. Jeffrey Brown sits down with the author to discuss his compulsion to observe, write and perform. Read more

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

By: Mike Ripley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child. ... Read more

PONS Audiotraining Aufbau - ENGLISCH. Für Fortgeschrittene

By: Tessa Shaw

Narrated by: Various Artists

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Erweitern Sie mühelos Ihre Sprachkenntnisse Das Komplettangebot für mobiles Lernen und Üben: - Eintauchen ins Land: Durch amüsante Dialoge und landestypische Gespräche unter Muttersprachlern lernen Sie schnell, Englisch besser zu verstehen. - Wissen festigen: Erst hören Sie zu, dann trainieren Sie – mit Übungen zu Wortschatz, Grammatik... Read more

The Way of the Writer

By: Charles Johnson

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award–winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered as much for its daring plot as its philosophical underpinnings. For thirty-three years, Johnson taught and... Read more