Literary Criticism audiobooks

The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies

By: Greg Harvey

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian—have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have reignited interest in Tolkien and his works, as well as introduced his stories to a... Read more

Madres arrepentidas

By: Orna Donath

Narrated by: Esther Cordero

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Aman a sus hijos, pero se arrepienten de ser madres. #madresarrepentidas es un tratado de pensamiento radical que no dejará indiferente a nadie. #madresarrepentidas pone sobre la mesa algo de lo que apenas se habla: las muchas mujeres que, una vez han sido madres, no han encontrado la «profetizada» plenitud. Aman a sus hijos por a su vez no... Read more

Siete ensayos sobre la peste

By: Carlos Gamerro

Narrated by: Tomás Cortés

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La primera historia cultural de la peste: un recorrido erudito y reflexivo por epidemias y pandemias en la literatura y las artes, de la mano de Carlos Gamerro, uno de los novelistas y ensayistas más prestigiosos de la actualidad.
Uno de los propósitos de estos ensayos sobre la peste es entendernos mejor: la vivencia de las epidemias y... Read more

Curso de Análise e Interpretação da Narrativa Literária Abordando o Tema Como Entender Grande Sertão: Veredas de João Guimarães Rosa

By: José Fernandes da Silva

Narrated by: José Fernandes da Silva

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

 O objetivo deste curso é buscar um entendimento de Grande Sertão Veredas, partindo de alguns fatores, ainda controversos, relativos a tal entendimento. Esses fatores são: o sentido metonímico do título Grande Sertão: Veredas; a técnica discursiva aí utilizada; o significado da palavra nonada e da expressão pão ou pães é questão de opiniães; as... Read more

Shakespeare Without a Life

By: Margreta de Grazia

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry.



For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No... Read more

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes

By: Cory O'Brien

Narrated by: Cory O'Brien

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Get this: Cronus liked to eat babies.



Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate.



Odin got construction discounts with bestiality.



Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.



And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face.



All our lives, we've been fed watered-down versions of the classic myths. In... Read more

The Insightful Reader

By: I. C. Robledo

Narrated by: Eric Aragoni

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Read for Insights, Improve Your Life, & Make an Impact
* INSIGHTS present you with a shift in the way you think about an idea or topic. They provide you with a realization that you should change the way you think about something and reconsider the actions that you take. *
Insights from reading have the power to provide us with priceless... Read more

Hooked

By: Rita Felski

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In... Read more

A Life of One's Own

By: Joanna Biggs

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The MillionsA piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the sameI took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with... Read more

Classical Mythology

By: Richard Martin

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and scholars since.



In six clear and concise chapters, this book explains what... Read more

Marvel Comics in the 1970s

By: Eliot Borenstein

Narrated by: Todd Menesses

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book... Read more

Intimate Papers

By: Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection contains miscellaneous notes and fragments found after the death of Baudelaire. They reveal in miniature the many and varied aspects of the moral and intellectual life of the author.Included are reflections not only on poetry, but also on painting and music, displaying Baudelaire’s finely-honed critical instincts. Read more

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

By: Elizabeth Winkler

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.

The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most... Read more

El arte de la distorsión

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Narrated by: John Alex Toro

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Un libro que ofrece diecisiete maneras de comprobar que «la lectura de ficción es una droga; el lector de ficciones, un adicto». Por el autor ganador del Premio IMPAC y del Premio Alfaguara de novela. De Joseph Conrad a Julio Ramón Ribeyro, de las verdaderas razones para lanzar la bomba atómica a una vehemente defensa del cuento como género, de... Read more

고맙습니다

By: 올리버 색스

Narrated by: 장호비

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

오토바이와 주기율표를 사랑하고, 암페타민에 중독됐던 아웃사이더 올리버 색스 여든두 살, 죽음을 앞둔 그가 우리 모두에게 삶에 대한 따뜻한 감사를 전합니다. 올리버 색스가 세상을 떠났을 때 전 세계 언론은 비통해 했다. 그가 뛰어난 뇌신경학자였기 때문도, 《아내를 모자로 착각한 남자》 《뮤지코필리아》 《온 더 무브》와 같은 베스트셀러 저자이기 때문만도 아니었다. 삶의 마지막 순간까지 상처 입은 인간을 따뜻하게 바라보며 감싸 안던 이 시대의 지성이 더이상 우리와 함께 할 수 없다는 사실에 대한 깊은 탄식이었다. 올리버 색스만큼 의학적 드라마와 인간적 드라마를 솔직하면서도 유려하게 포착해내는 데 성공한 작가는... Read more

Evangelical Teaching

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Evangelical Teaching” is an insightful 1855 essay written by George Eliot (Marian Evans) and published in The Westminster Review. Here, Eliot explores ethical problems inherent in certain strands and styles of Christian evangelical teaching—particularly as displayed in the writings of one Dr. Cumming. While Eliot’s critique is focused on the... Read more

The Flowers of Evil

By: Frank Pearce Sturm & Charles Baudelaire

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Baudelaire’s most famous collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil, which was published in 1857 and which was widely condemned as being unwholesome and decadent. The publication actually led to Baudelaire being prosecuted on a charge of offending public morals.There have been numerous translations of Baudelaire’s work into English, but many of... Read more

Ramachi Ramnagari

By: Pu La Deshpande

Narrated by: Avinash Narkar

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

राम नगरकर, निळू फुले आणि दादा कोंडके हे तिघेही जण सेवादल कलापथकातील कलावंत ! त्यामुळे पु.ल.देशपांडे यांच्याशी त्यांचे मित्रत्वाचे नाते होते. विच्छा माझी पुरी करा मधील भूमिकेमुळे राम नगरकर गाजले तेव्हा पु.लंनी त्यांचे मोठ्या आनंदाने कौतुक केले होते. एके दिवशी संक्रांतीच्या दिवशी निळू फुले आणि राम नगरकर दोघेही तिळगूळ घेऊन पु.लं.च्या घरी आले आणि... Read more

El olor de la guayaba

By: Gabriel García Márquez & Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza

Narrated by: Diego Trujillo & Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

En El olor de la guayaba pueden encontrarse las claves de un proceso creador y creativo de singular riqueza. Si formalmente El olor de la guayaba es una prolongada conversación del escritor y periodista Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza con su viejo amigo Gabriel García Márquez -lo que da ocasión a éste para desgranar con vivacidad sus remembranzas,... Read more

Artful Truths

By: Helena de Bres

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir.
 
Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher’s perspective to a general audience, Helena... Read more

The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

By: Patrick Hastings

Narrated by: Patrick Hastings

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Guide to James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' Patrick Hastings provides comprehensive support to readers of Joyce's magnum opus by illuminating crucial details and reveling in the mischievous genius of this unparalleled novel. Written in a voice that offers encouragement and good humor, this guidebook maintains a closeness to the original text and... Read more

Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated

By: Nava Atlas

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women’s literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and... Read more

Reckoning

By: V

Narrated by: V

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award–winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues—political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.



The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core... Read more

Manténgase lejos de los tibios

By: Juan Manuel Roca

Narrated by: Mario de Candia

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Manténgase lejos de los tibios indicaría una posición afín a los límites ideológicos y, en la transparencia, evocaría un homenaje a una tradición religiosa. Pero el contenido del libro alcanza un equilibrio intelectual y literario difícil de lograr. El autor es consciente de los fracasos y los peligros de las astucias extremas y, por eso, sus... Read more