Literary Criticism audiobooks
Guru Nanak te Guru Gobind Singh
By: Dr Arvind Sadashiv Godbole
Narrated by: Prashant Jadhav
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
श्री गुरू गोविंद सिंह हे शिखांचे दहावे आणि अंतिम 'देहधारी गुरू' होत. त्यांनी शिखांचा पवित्र धार्मिक ग्रंथ गुरू ग्रंथ साहिबचे संकलन आणि लिखाण केले. गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांचा आदेश: 'सब सिखन को हुकूम है, गुरू मान्यो ग्रंथ' (सर्व शिखांना असा हुकूम आहे की गुरू ग्रंथ साहिब लाच आपला गुरू माना). नांदेड शहरात गुरू गोविंद सिंह यांच्या समाधी वर बांधलेला... Read more
View audiobookEl bar prodigioso
By: Roberto Santiago
Narrated by: Antonio Romero, Alejandro Arestegui, Ana Lucas,...
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Una comedia prodigiosa de Roberto Santiago. Antonio lo tiene todo: un buen trabajo, una buena esposa, una buena casa. Bernardo es su mejor amigo. No tiene nada. Ahora Bernardo se ha enamorado de Sophie, la mujer de Antonio. Por lo visto, es algo imparable. Sophie es artista. Atraviesa una crisis creativa y habla "raro". Clara es la camarera del... Read more
View audiobookLooking for the Hidden Folk
By: Nancy Marie Brown
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated... Read more
View audiobookThe Waste Land
By: Matthew Hollis
Narrated by: Matthew Hollis
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.
Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded... Read more
Primavera
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
En primavera reunimos, compilados por Peter Saint-André, fragmentos de distintas fuentes (principalmente de sus diarios), en los que Henry David Thoreau reflexiona, entre marzo y junio, sobre las particularidades que ofrece la primavera en relación con la naturaleza y con la vida de las personas. En la sociedad no encontrarás salud si no es... Read more
View audiobookCreencias Supersticiosas
By: Inocencio Velez
Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Te has preguntado por qué algunas personas temen ciertas fechas, como el viernes 13? ¿Por qué decimos 'Salud' cuando la gente estornuda? ¿A qué se deben esos miedos a los espejos rotos? Entonces sigue leyendo…
“La superstición trae mala suerte.” - Umberto Eco
Muchas de nuestras supersticiones más duraderas -como evitar pasar por debajo de una... Read more
10 preguntas que responden los autores exitosos
By: Keila González Báez
Narrated by: Luciana
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Alguna vez te has sentido abrumado porque deseas prosperar con tu libro pero no tienes idea de cómo lograrlo? Es probable que hayas investigado en docenas de páginas o intentado distintos métodos y que estos solo te hayan confundido aún más. Esto sucede porque, si lo que de verdad deseas es catapultar tu carrera como autor, necesitarás... Read more
View audiobookAsking Better Questions of the Bible
By: Marty Solomon
Narrated by: Marty Solomon
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Too often when we come to the Bible, we settle for easy answers. We move quickly toward the allure of resolution. But when we ask the questions the Bible is asking, we will do these things instead: understand the Eastern perspective of words, numbers, and core principles like eternal life, truth, sin, and faith recognize the literary devices and... Read more
View audiobookAffirmez-vous !
By: Marie-Laurence Cattoire
Narrated by: Marie-Laurence Cattoire
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Le livre audio de « Affirmez-vous ! », lu par l'auteure.« Si j'observe autour de moi les femmes de ma génération, je les découvre belles, talentueuses, courageuses, pleines de dynamisme... Et en même temps complexées, hyperpenseuses, épuisées, se faisant du souci pour tout... Ces femmes que je côtoie me donnent l'impression d'être les victimes... Read more
View audiobookLiteratura y fantasma
By: Javier Marías
Narrated by: Arturo López
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Un libro imprescindible para cuantos se dedican a escribir, pero sobre todo a leer. Escritura sobre la escritura, pero sobre todo, sobre la lectura, Literatura y fantasma reúne 72 artículos publicados desde 1978 a 2000 en diversos medios, cuyo nexo común, según su autor, es tratar «de asuntos literarios o relacionados con la literatura y sus... Read more
View audiobookMahatma Gandhi 100 Varshangal
By: Dr. S Radhakrishnan
Narrated by: Arattupuzha Hakkimkhan
Length: 21 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
1969 ഒക്ടോബര് 2ന് ലോകമെങ്ങും മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധിയുടെ ജന്മ ശതാബ്ദി ആഘോഷിച്ചപ്പോള് പുറത്തിറക്കിയ "Mahatma Gandhi 100 Years"എന്ന വിശ്വപ്രസിദ്ധഗ്രന്ഥത്തിന്റെ തര്ജ്ജമ. ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാ ണ്ടിനെ രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയ യുഗപുരുഷന്മാരില് പ്രാതഃസ്മരണീയനായി രുന്ന ഗാന്ധിജിയെ സമകാലികരായ ലോകപ്രശസ്ത വ്യക്തികള് വിവിധ കാഴ്ചപ്പാടുകളില് നോക്കിക്കാണുന്നു. സമകാലിക സാമൂ ഹിക... Read more
View audiobookCartas a un joven novelista
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
Narrated by: Julio García
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
«Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.» Mario Vargas Llosa «El escritor siente... Read more
View audiobookUna casa propia
By: Deborah Levy
Narrated by: Conchi Ramírez de Haro
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que... Read more
View audiobookAnthiveyilile Ponnu
By: Perumbadavam Sreedharan
Narrated by: Sreelakshmi Jayachandran
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
എഴുത്തും ചലച്ചിത്രലോകത്തെ അനുഭവങ്ങളും നിരവധി സിനിമകളുടെ പ്രമേയങ്ങളും ചർച്ച ചെയ്യുന്ന ഈ നോവൽ മുന്നോട്ടുവയ്ക്കുന്ന ചില യാഥാർത്ഥ്യങ്ങളുണ്ട്.ഒട്ടേറെ ചലച്ചിത്രതാരങ്ങളുടെ നേർചിത്രീകരണമാവുന്നുണ്ട് നോവൽ. ഒരു ബയോപിക് എന്നും ഇതിനെ വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കാം. ഒരു ചലച്ചിത്രനടിയുടെ ഉയർച്ചയും വളർച്ചയും പതനവും ഇവിടെയുണ്ട്. Read more
View audiobookThree Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson
Narrated by: William Hope
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by William Hope examines how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss and changed the course of American thought In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of... Read more
View audiobookPrimary
By: Alex Holland
Narrated by: Alex Holland
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
On the brink of suicide on his 21st birthday, a young man's world is turned upside down when he encounters an elf and dwarf whose voices he can hear in his head. Thrust into a realistic video game, he must race against time to recover ancient artifacts that hold the key to his true origins before his high school bully kills him. As he uncovers... Read more
View audiobookSkoterresan
By: Jonatan Risberg
Narrated by: Jonatan Risberg
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Skoterresan är inspirerade av en sann händelse.Vännerna Bo och Eskild åker ut på en skotertur, intet anandes att det skulle bli ett äventyr som förändrade deras liv. Read more
View audiobookTough Guy
By: Richard Bradford
Narrated by: Eric Meyers
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Tough Guy by Richard Bradford, read by Eric Meyers.
The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980... Read more
Ein Gespräch über William Shakespeare - Hamlet - Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte 5 (Gekürzt) - Abridged
By: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...
Narrated by: Ulrike Draesner, John von Düffel, Timo Brunke &...
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
1601 am Globe Theatre in London uraufgeführt, gehört Shakespeares Drama "Hamlet" zu den bekanntesten und meistdiskutierten Tragödien der Weltliteratur. Bereits in der Entstehungszeit war das Stück populär und genießt bis heute eine beeindruckende Bühnenpräsenz; Aussprüche wie "Sein oder Nichtsein" haben Eingang gefunden in unsere... Read more
View audiobookLos artistas y la política
By: Virgnia Woolf
Narrated by: Cecilia Bona
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
El arte y la literatura, en estos ensayos, aparecen como instancias democráticas y necesarias para un nuevo mundo. La idea de que un artista no puede y no debe separarse de su entorno es repetida una y otra vez en los textos, que nos muestran a una Woolf que cree en un mundo distinto al que conoció: una literatura y un arte nuevos. Solo podemos... Read more
View audiobookThe Tragic Mind
By: Robert D. Kaplan
Narrated by: John Chancer
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is... Read more
The Wife of Bath
By: Marion Turner
Narrated by: Marion Turner
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce,... Read more
View audiobookNotizen über Nationalismus
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Norbert Wendel
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
In seinem Essay "Notes on Nationalism", beschäftigt sich George Orwell mit der Frage, was Nationalismus eigentlich ist und welche Auswirkungen er hat. Anders als man gemeinhin annehmen könnte, definiert Orwell dabei Nationalimus nicht ausschließlich bezogen auf die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Nation sondern wesentlich breiter als Zugehörigkeit zu... Read more
View audiobookPolitik und die englische Sprache
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Norbert Wendel
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In seinem Essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell beklagt die Verflachung und Verkommenheit der politischen Sprache in England. Er argumentiert, dass politische Schreibweisen dazu neigen, komplexe Ideen und Gedanken in einfache, leere Floskeln und Phrasen zu verwandeln. Dies führt nicht nur zu einer Verminderung der kritischen... Read more
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