Literary Criticism audiobooks

Sunjata and Bakaridjan Koné: Two Captivating Legends from Mali

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Michael Reaves

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you like epic tales that sing the deeds of the world’s greatest heroes?If so, you will love this volume of epics from the West African country of Mali. Each is full of battles and derring-do, magic, and prophecies based on historical events. The Epic of Sunjata tells the tale of the great thirteenth-century king of the Mali Empire, Sunjata... Read more

Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni

By: Krzysztof Toeplitz

Narrated by: Jędrzej Fulara

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Powieść autora scenariusza do ikonicznego serialu "Czterdziestolatek"!Skąd się wzięła polska kultura masowa i jakie są jej główne atuty? Na czym polega fenomen dostępu do szybkiego przepływu informacji i łatwo przyswajalnej, taniej rozrywki? ,,Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni" to zbiór szkiców o społecznym oddziaływaniu środków masowego przekazu i... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Andrew James Roberts

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of friendship, honor, and adventure that will captivate young minds, readers will love the enthralling tale of young protagonist David Balfour in his journey of self-discovery, loss, and endurance. A tale that explores the historical landscape of Scotland, this is a coming-of-age story like no other. With beautiful full-page... Read more

CLAMPdown

By: Ian Wolf

Narrated by: Ian Wolf

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the only book containing an appendix of eye losses, makes reference to hand gel depicting a gay assassin, and to compare a group of all-women Japanese comic book artists to a German electronic band.In early 2020, Ian Wolf - manga critic in print and online, autistic comedic data specialist, and some time question writer for Richard Osman's... Read more

Baron Munchausen

By: Rudolf Erich Raspe

Narrated by: Olga Makina

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Baron Munchausen is a popular German fairy tale. Baron Munchausen likes to tell everyone about his travels. The only thing is his stories seems very unlikely, he is always exaggerating everything... The moral of the story is: people will see through your lies. Recommended for age 3+. Read more

A Set of Six

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Peter Dann

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American general who has fought in a war of independence tells his guests a long tale about a notorious strong man that explains the origin of his current domestic arrangements. "The Informer" leads the reader into the depths... Read more

The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

By: Simon Young

Narrated by: Jonathan Johns

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or... Read more

Portable Magic

By: Emma Smith

Narrated by: Emma Smith

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.

Stephen King once said that books are... Read more

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

By: Daisy Hay

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides a fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin FranklinOnce a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a... Read more

Maus Now

By: Hillary Chute

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and... Read more

Camus at Combat

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom’s barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men’s blood.Albert Camus (1913–1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from... Read more

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader - Abridged

By: Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren

Narrated by: Tina Woods

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina... Read more

Reading Confederate Monuments - Abridged

By: Maria Seger

Narrated by: Mason Jackson

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public... Read more

Mode und andere Neurosen - Essays (Ungekürzt)

By: Katja Eichinger

Narrated by: Katja Eichinger

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist Mode? Was erzählen wir über uns, wenn wir uns anziehen? Und woher kommt die Lust an Inszenierung und Selbstausdruck? In ihren persönlichen, hellsichtigen Essays schreibt Katja Eichinger über Handtaschen, Hermès und Habermas. Sie denkt über Fast Fashion und Nachhaltigkeit nach, über die Träume und Hoffnungen, die wir mit unserem Äußeren... Read more

Lotgenoten

By: Arne Van der Linden

Narrated by: Sam D'Hondt

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Duik mee in deze razend spannende jeugdboekenserie! Dit is het tweede deel van 'Het project'.Alans puike prestatie tijdens de dropping krijgt een bittere nasmaak wanneer hij zijn eerste missie ontvangt. Thomas en Lauren, twee vroegere klasgenoten, zijn ontvoerd. Samen met Eli en Sam begeeft hij zich opnieuw in het rijk der levenden en in een... Read more

Foreign Bodies

By: Mark Lawson

Narrated by: Mark Lawson & Various

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Lawson takes an international look at celebrated literary detectives, talking to their creators to explore how mystery fiction reflects society's trends and tensions

'Masterly'' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph

Throughout its long history, crime fiction has broadened our horizons, introducing us to unfamiliar places, people and cultures... Read more

The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

By: E. M. Berens

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover Ancient Greece and Rome like never before with this compendium that begins with creation myth of Uranus and Gaea and includes descriptions and tales of gods both major and minor, as well as mythical creatures and other divinities. Author and scholar E.M. Berens also details how the people of ancient Greece and Rome worshiped, covering... Read more

Snape

By: Lorrie Kim

Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J. K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the... Read more

Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you... Read more

The Hyacinth Girl

By: Lyndall Gordon

Narrated by: Buffy Davis

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T. S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to... Read more

Origins of The Wheel of Time

By: Michael Livingston

Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer ...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus interview with Rosamund Pike.

“Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® series

Explore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:

—An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World
—The long-awaited backstory of Nakomi

Take a... Read more

Świat bez grzechu i jego obraz w filmie

By: Krzysztof Toeplitz

Narrated by: Jędrzej Fulara

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Powieść autora scenariusza do ikonicznego serialu "Czterdziestolatek"!Jakie możliwości ukazania ludzkiej cielesności daje reżyserom dzieło filmowe? Czym byłaby historia kina bez ,,scen łóżkowych"? Kiedy aktorzy powinni odmawiać występowania w rozbieranych scenach? Odpowiedzi na te i podobne pytania związane z seksualnością i erotyką w... Read more

On Writing (and Writers)

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other revered classics.Featuring... Read more

What Writers Read

By: Pandora Sykes

Narrated by: Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Dian...

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes, read by Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Diana Evans, Paris Lees, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Paul Mendez, Sara Collins, Nina Stibbe, Tessa Hadley, Damon Galgut, Simon Darwen and Aysha Kala.

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora... Read more