Literary Criticism audiobooks

The Lessons of Tragedy

By: Hal Brands & Charles Edel

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and... Read more

Beatrix Potter

By: Linda Lear

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of... Read more

Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados con nuestras familias

By: Philip Gourevitch

Narrated by: John Alex Toro

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Un extraordinario reportaje, ganador de numerosos premios internacionales, sobre el genocidio ruandés. El 6 de abril de 1994, el avión del presidente de Ruanda fue abatido por un misil. Al día siguiente el gobierno animaba a la mayoría hutu a asesinar a sus vecinos tutsis junto con aquellos hutus que intentasen protegerlos. De este modo daba... Read more

Great Goddesses

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words.

With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (Fierce Fairytales, Wild Embers) uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and... Read more

Do I love thee… …let me count…

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis, Amy Caldwell & K...

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from... Read more

Chaucer

By: Marion Turner

Narrated by: Marion Turner

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life?yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they... Read more

Everything Inside

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.”—Vanity Fair • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with... Read more

Too Much

By: Rachel Vorona Cote

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar & Rachel Vorona Cote

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang)

A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat... Read more

Don't Panic

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Simon Jones & Neil Gaiman

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker!First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural... Read more

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

By: Larry W. Phillips

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or... Read more

The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

By: Robert Jordan & Teresa Patterson

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.



The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns... Read more

Long Live Latin

By: Nicola Gardini

Narrated by: Todd Portnowitz

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the... Read more

Sensuous Knowledge

By: Minna Salami

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.

Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore... 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

How a Poem Moves 

By: Adam Sol

Narrated by: Adam Sol & Soraya Peerbaye

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging... Read more

This Is Shakespeare

By: Emma Smith

Narrated by: Emma Smith

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality
 
A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision,... Read more

The Dark Fantastic

By: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked... Read more

Things I Say to Myself

By: Dale Andrews

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As a local TV talk show host and occasional standup comedian, author Dale Andrews has moved audiences to laughter and tears. Today, through his new book, he encourages anyone in the throes of contemporary life to make just one more day with dignity and purpose.

Each morning, Andrews starts his day off with a simple written one–page statement... Read more

March Sisters

By: Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado ...

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel—what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their... Read more

Hacia rutas salvajes

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Alberto Santillán

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Por qué un joven que acababa de graduarse decide cortar todos los lazos con su familia y perderse en una región inhóspita? Descúbrelo en este audiolibro En abril de 1992, Chris McCandless, de 24 años, se internó solo y apenas equipado en tierras de Alaska. Había regalado todo su dinero y abandonado su coche, y soñaba con una vida en estado... Read more

The Happily Ever After

By: Avi Steinberg

Narrated by: Dustin Rubin

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir about writing a novel about searching for love.

Is romance dead? Is that why there are so many vampires in today's romance novels? When Avi Steinberg's love life took a grim turn, he did what he always does: He consulted his old books, the usual cast of Great (Very Serious, Usually Male) Authors. And he immediately realized that these... Read more

Clases de literatura

By: Julio Cortázar

Narrated by: Leandro Schnitman

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

En la cima de su carrera, Cortázar brindó esta serie de clases en los Estados Unidos, en las que enseña sobre literatura pero, a la vez, ofrece claves valiosas para entender mejor su obra.
«A lo largo de mi camino de escritor he pasado por tres etapas bastante bien definidas: una primera etapa que llamaría estética, una segunda etapa que... Read more

Square Haunting

By: Francesca Wade

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and... Read more

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust.... Read more