Literary Criticism audiobooks

Grampa In Oz

By: Ruth Plumly Thompson

Narrated by: Phil Chenevert

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the wonderful world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful old soldier Grampa, sets off to find the king's head, a fortune, and a princess. With Bill, a live iron weathercock, they visit a Wizard's Garden and discover Urtha, a lovely girl made all of... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Guy Jones

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The... Read more

De Sabios Para Sabios

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Un buen consejo incluso recibido a tiempo puede cambiar tu vida, por que en ellos hay sabiduría, escuchar es bien importante para todos, y mucho mejor si aplicamos lo oído, por ello amigo lector a través de este libro te comparto acerca de: proverbios cortos sabiduría sin fin, reflexiones profundas, citas para reflexionar, pensamientos profundos... Read more

Glinda of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Phil Chenevert

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Glinda the Good, the great sorceress of Oz takes the spotlight in this, the very last OZ book written by L. Frank Baum himself. Ozma hears of previously unknown parts of her kingdom having difficulties and at war with each other and knows it is her duty to go there and stop the hostilities. She and Dorothy find truly bad conditions in these... Read more

The Nutmeg's Curse

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary... Read more

How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

Narrated by: Elaine Castillo

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.”

“A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book... Read more

Finn McCool

By: History Nerds

Narrated by: Theodore Zephyr

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Finn McCool is a legendary figure of Irish folklore, known for his bravery and superhuman strength. But who was the real Finn McCool? In this concise history book, you will discover the true story of this iconic hero. From his childhood and his famous battle with the Scottish giant, to his love life and eventual demise, this book tells the tale... Read more

Rebel

By: Hanumanta Reddy Kodidela

Narrated by: Bhogindranath

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

ఎవరైనా ఎందుకు ప్రాణాలకు హామీ లేని ఉద్యమాల్ని కావాలని కావిలించుకుంటారు? ఎందుకని తమ పరిసరాల మీద తెగించి తిరుగబడతారు? చివరికి, ఎందుకని తిరుగుబాట్ల మీద కూడా తిరుగబడతారు? అలాంటి మనుషులు ఎలా 'తయారవుతా'రు? వాళ్లు అలా అవడానికి, పార్టీల్లోనయినా బయటయినా 'రెబెల్స్' గా ఉంటానికి భౌతిక, మానసిక కారణాల అన్వేషణ ఈ నవల. పవన్ కుమార్ అనే ఒక సామాన్యుని కథ ఇది. బతుకు... Read more

SloMo: Хатняя крытыка культурнага дызайну

By: Максім Жбанкоў

Narrated by: Максім Жбанкоў

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Кніга Максіма Жбанкова — суплет пярэстых (стылістычна і моўна) тэкстаў, аб’яднаных агульнай тэмай: айчынная культура мінулага дзесяцігоддзя і яе падставовыя праявы. Аўтар, як заўжды, аджыгае ды інцярэснічае. Шукае кідкія маркеры для персон і сітуацый. Пазначае паходжанне новых герояў і даследуе тэхнікі беларускага поспеху. Тлумачыць адхіленні і... Read more

Carta al padre

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Raúl Rodríguez

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

La carta que Franz Kafka escribió a su padre y nunca fue enviada. La carta más famosa del siglo xx jamás llegó a su destinatario. Ni siquiera fue enviada. La escribió Franz Kafka de un tirón entre el 4 y el 20 de noviembre de 1919, y está dirigida a su padre, Hermann Kafka, comerciante judío en la ciudad de Praga. Escrita en un estilo que su... Read more

Cosas que no quiero saber

By: Deborah Levy

Narrated by: Conchi Ramírez de Haro

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste devivir forman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy,un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo, ambos galardonados con el Premio Femina 2020... Read more

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: Lyman Frank Baum

Narrated by: Christopher Saylor

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

he Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. The first novel in the Oz books, the Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a tornado. Upon her arrival in Oz, she learns she cannot... Read more

Victories Never Last

By: Robert Zaretsky

Narrated by: Ray Greenley

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas. In Victories Never Last Zaretsky weaves his... Read more

The Modern Myths

By: Philip Ball

Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But... Read more

The Terrible Speed of Mercy

By: Jonathan Rogers

Narrated by: Jeremy Childs

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.”—Flannery O’ConnorFlannery O’Connor’s work has been described as “profane, blasphemous, and outrageous.” Her stories are... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Andrew Gaunce

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of obsession, murder, and science run amok. Read more

Ferien vom Ich

By: Paul Keller

Narrated by: Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Rezept für eine leicht bekömmliche (Urlaubs-) Lektüre: Man nehme einen Arzt mit originellem Kur-Konzept, einen hiervon begeisterten amerikanischen Millionär und eine ganze Reihe Kurgäste, die ihr Leben an der Rezeption abzulegen bereit sind um "Ferien vom Ich" zu machen. Diese Mischung wird garniert mit einem Schuss Familientragödie, diversen... Read more

Why Did You Stay?: The instant Sunday Times bestseller

By: Rebecca Humphries

Narrated by: Rebecca Humphries

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'Fierce. Game-changing. Urgently necessary. Brilliant, brilliant and did I say brilliant?' EMMA THOMPSON
'Pacy, vivid, compelling and very, VERY funny ... it will help so many' MARIAN KEYES
'A fucking classic. Required reading for all women and men and I believe it's going to be the book of 2022' BRYONY GORDON
'Fuck, this is good.... Read more

The Unwritten Book

By: Samantha Hunt

Narrated by: Samantha Hunt & Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Dark Dark comes a genre-bending work of nonfiction explores the idea of haunting—writ large.“I carry each book I’ve ever read with me, just as I carry my dead—those things that aren’t really there, those things that shape everything I am.”A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle & Alex Woolf

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure.
Captain Arthur Morstan has vanished. Where is he, and does his disappearance have anything to do with the six pearls sent to his daughter Mary? Our crime-fighting sleuth decides to investigate.
Adapted by award-winning... Read more

La garçonne

By: Victor Margueritte

Narrated by: Pauline Latournerie

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ce "roman de moeurs" à thèse présente une jeune femme indépendante menant une vie sexuelle très libre. Cet ouvrage a fait scandale (il a valu à son auteur de se voir retirer la Légion d'Honneur), mais a été un énorme succès de librairie. Extrait du livre: "– Il faut que tu saches cependant, dit Mme Lerbier décidée à avoir le dernier mot,... Read more

Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants

By: Comtesse de Ségur

Narrated by: Ezwa

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

La Comtesse de Ségur nous livre ici quelques récits qui avaient tant amusés ses petites-filles. L'on y découvre des enfants bien curieux, bien courageux, bien vertueux, avec leurs bonnes et mauvaises fées. Elles les feront passer par des épreuves bien difficiles... Read more

اللحظة الحرجة

By: يوسف إدريس

Narrated by: جمال مرعي

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

تدور مسرحية تدور مسرحية اللحظة الحرجة حول إحدى الأسر التى تغلق باب الحجرة على ابنها الشاب لكي تمنعه من المخاطرة بحياته في الكفاح المسلح ضد الإنجليز، لكن الباب لم يكن مغلقًا بإحكام، وكان بوسع الشاب أن يتذرع أمام نفسه بأن الباب مغلق، ومن ثم فإنه لا يستطيع الخروج للمشاركة مع الآخرين في ضد العدوان، وكان بوسع الشاب لو أراد أن يدفع الباب بكتفه دفعة... Read more

L'Homme qui voulait être heureux de Laurent Gounelle

By: lePetitLitteraire & Marie Bouhon

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez L'Homme qui voulait être heureux de Laurent Gounelle avec l'analyse du PetitLittéraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir de l'ouvrage L'Homme qui voulait vivre heureux, le roman qui vous invite à réfléchir sur la quête du bonheur et le sens de la vie ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur ce chef-d'œuvre contemporain dans une fiche de... Read more