Literary Criticism audiobooks

Instant Study Skills

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

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How to Study Instantly!
It's late at night. You're staring at the vast amount of texts that you're trying to wrap your head around for 10 different... Read more

Instant Learning

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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How to Learn Anything Instantly!
Imagine somebody is presenting you with a huge sum of information on how to do something, instructions on how to operate... Read more

Jack of All Trades

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

ADDRESS TO: The One, who has an insatiable craving for acquiring new knowledge, developing new skills, or nurturing existing talents...
You are here "reading this" right now because you want to be able to learn all sorts of things in a short amount of time, whether to further your understanding of the world, master your craftsmanship, or continue... Read more

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

Friends In Small Places

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Paul Thottam

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the... Read more

Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra

By: Ruskin Bond

Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him. In... Read more

On Moral Fiction

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fearless, illuminating" criticism from a New York Times bestselling author and legendary teacher, "proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial" (Los Angeles Times).



Novelist John Gardner's thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: "True art is by its nature moral." It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in... Read more

Rastafarian Children of Solomon

By: Gerald Hausman

Narrated by: Gerald Hausman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Shares the spiritual wisdom of Rastafari through the stories, teachings, and traditions of practicing Rastas in Jamaica

• Includes the author’s interviews with bush doctors, healers, and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica

• Reveals the old ways of the Rastafarians and how their beliefs form an unbroken lineage... Read more

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

By: Henry Miller

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the... Read more

C. S. Lewis

By: James Como

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C. S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the 1930s, he became a famous broadcaster during World War Two and wrote in many... Read more

A Carnival of Losses

By: Donald Hall

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled Essays After Eighty (2014) and now A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety. They’re up there with the best things he did.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate of the United States, essays from the vantage point of very old ageDonald Hall lived... Read more

Essays One

By: Lydia Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis.

Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal... Read more

Mud and Stars

By: Sara Wheeler

Narrated by: Sara Wheeler

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nation­alities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as... Read more

I'd Rather Be Reading

By: Anne Bogel

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary companion for everyone who feels that way. In... Read more

Moving Foreword

By: Jon Chattman

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A great foreword is more than just a few pages of self-indulgent frippery that comes before a book. A great foreword adds zest. It sets the stage for the page turner you're about to open, and perhaps even puts you in the locked room where a mystery happens or in the high-button shoes of a year gone by.



A great foreword—sometimes—is even better... Read more

Planet Narnia

By: Michael Ward

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won... Read more

The Role of the Scroll

By: Thomas Forrest Kelly

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Role of the Scroll, Thomas Forrest Kelly brings to life the most interesting scrolls in medieval history, placing them in the context of those who made, commissioned, and used them, and reveals their remarkably varied uses. Scrolls were the best way to keep ever-expanding lists, for example, those of debtors, knights, and the dead. While... Read more

Finding God in the Land of Narnia

By: Kurt Bruner & Jim Ware

Narrated by: Nick Sandys

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Finding God in the Land of Narnia, best-selling authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware explore the deep spiritual themes of redemption and grace found in the popular Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. With amazing clarity that captures the tone and style of C. S. Lewis himself, the authors offer a depth of insight that will surprise even... Read more

Love Unknown

By: Thomas Travisano

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for... Read more

On Cussing

By: Katherine Dunn

Narrated by: Caroline Aaron

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

F uck the Fuckity Fuckin' Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a young girl, she heard it as a kind of profane poem, a secret song. For many of us, the language of Geek Love carries a similar staying power, born of Dunn's agile use of language and her strange, beautiful... Read more

The Trip to Echo Spring

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

OLIVIA LAING’S WIDELY ACCLAIMED ACCOUNT OF WHY SOME OF THE BEST LITERATURE HAS BEEN CREATED BY WRITERS IN THE GRIP OF ALCOHOLISMIn The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America’s finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John... Read more

A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s. Read more

A Delicate Aggression

By: David O. Dowling

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and facultyAs the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight... Read more

The Club

By: Leo Damrosch

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernIn 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink,... Read more