Literary Criticism audiobooks

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

El Príncipe

By: Nicolás Maquiavelo

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

El príncipe constituye un capítulo fundacional del pensamiento y la literatura occidental, y, sin embargo, el lector tiene que sortear la inercia de tópicos seculares al intentar aventurarse por sus páginas. Pero, en última instancia, Maquiavelo fue sobre todo un esforzado patriota florentino, y gran parte de su vida estuvo dedicada al servicio... Read more

Los 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

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

Raja Ravi Varma

By: Ranjit Desai

Narrated by: Vijayan Menon

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up... Read more

A Hand Book For My Lover

By: Rosalyn D'Mello

Narrated by: Alka Sharma

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

I wish I had never met you. You've been nothing but an inconvenience. Guised as an instructive manual, A Handbook For My Lover chronicles six years in the life of an unconventional affair between a young writer and her older lover, a photographer. This sensuous epistle documents the woman's demands and desires, her fantasies and eccentricities... Read more

Self Deception : India's China Policies

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Simalaya

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all warnings in Tibet and our entire border? What did he do when those assumptions proved wrong? What eventually led to the debacle of 1962? Are the same... Read more

Battle For Sanskrit : Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive?

By: Rajiv Malhotra

Narrated by: Nitin Bhattacharya

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti – Indian civilization – concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the... Read more

Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishnaji : Tales from India's Maoist Movement

By: Shigdhendu Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'India is an unbroken chain of broken promises.' In 2009, Lalgarh in West Bengal exploded on to the national consciousness. A tribal upsurge against police atrocities escalated into fierce, full-fledged guerrilla warfare against the Indian state. Kishanji, the Maoist leader, who had successfully led the movement in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh... Read more

Super Women

By: Prachi Garg

Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza, Meena Nahata & Mani N. Puhan

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

This book brings forth the stories of twenty women entrepreneurs who have struck a perfect personal-professional harmony, and a chord with their immediate consumers. Their innovative ventures encompass a varied range of services – from supporting victims of acid attacks, to providing free skin care solutions; from online retail of lingerie,... Read more

The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

By: Ravish Kumar

Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many... Read more

Don't Disturb the Dead - The Story of the Ramsay Brothers

By: Shamya Dasgupta

Narrated by: Sumit Kaul

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows about the Ramsays – even those who have never watched a Ramsay film. But who were they really? Where did they come from? Why did they make the films they did? And how? How, really, did they pull it off? In India, the Ramsay name remains synonymous with horror movies. Still, all these decades later. Don't Disturb the Dead is the... Read more

Does He Know A Mother's Heart

By: Arun Shourie

Narrated by: Richard Joel

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

'Arun's brilliance and insight come to the fore when he takes his specific personal situation and turns it into a discussion on the larger questions that humankind has been grappling with over the ages' – N.R. Narayana Murthy 'It is for this book that Arun will be remembered the most. It moved me to tears …' -Dr R.A. Mashelkar A child is in... Read more

Transcendence : My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji

By: APJ Abdul Kalam & Arun Tiwari

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Pramukh Swamiji, one of the most inspiring spiritual leaders of modern times and the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, is the inheritor of a legacy of enlightened gurus that goes back to the early nineteenth century. Pramukh Swamiji became, through a chance meeting, friend to one of India's most eminent citizens, the eleventh... Read more

Maharajavin Rail Vandi

By: A. Muthulingam

Narrated by: R. Mahadevan Yashini

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

முத்துலிங்கத்தின் படைப்புகள் நவீனத் தமிழிலக்கியத்திற்கு ஈழத்தமிழ் தந்திருக்கும் முக்கியமான கொடை. அவர் கதைகளில் வெவ்வேறு தேசங்கள், வெவ்வேறு கலாச்சாரங்கள், வெவ்வேறு மனிதர்கள்; தமிழ் வாசகனுக்கு அன்னியப்படாமலும் தீவிரம் சிதைக்கப்படாமலும் படைக்கப்பட்டிருக்கின்றன Read more

Njan Reshma

By: Taniya Singh & Reshma Khureshi

Narrated by: Sunitha Chandran

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

പതിനേഴ് വയസ്സിൽ ആസിഡ് അറ്റാക്കിനു പാത്രമായ രേഷ്മ ഖുറേഷി എന്ന ധീരയായ ചെറുപ്പക്കാരിയുടെ ചെറുത്തുനിൽപ്പിന്റെ കഥയാണ് ഈ പുസ്തകം. അവളുടെ ജീവിതം മാറ്റിമറിച്ച സംഭവത്തിൽ നിന്നും അവൾ സ്വന്തം ജീവിതം കെട്ടിപ്പടുത്തത് എങ്ങിനെയെന്നതിനു നിങ്ങളും സാക്ഷികളാവുക. Inspiring and life-affirming, Being Reshma is the extraordinary story of this young girl from the... Read more

Avasanathe Penkutty

By: Nadia Murad

Narrated by: Manjima Mohan

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

ഐസിസിന്റെ ലൈംഗിക അടിമത്തത്തിന് വിധേയയാക്കപ്പെട്ടതിലൂടെ ഭാവനകള്ക്കപ്പുറത്തുള്ള ദുരന്തവും അപമാനവും സഹിക്കേണ്ടിവന്ന ധീരയായ യസീദി യുവതിയാണ് നാദിയ മുറാദ്. നാദിയയുടെ ആറ് സഹോദരന്മാര് കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു, താമസിയാതെ അമ്മയും. അവരുടെ മൃതദേഹങ്ങള് കൂട്ടക്കുഴിമാടങ്ങളിലേക്ക് വലിച്ചെറിയപ്പെട്ടു. എങ്കിലും അവള് ചെറുത്തുനിന്നു. പ്രചോദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ഈ ഓര്മ്മക്കുറിപ്പ്... Read more

Chandrababu - Kanneerum Punnagayum

By: Mugil

Narrated by: Raaghav Ranganathan

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"என்னை முற்றிலும் புரிந்து கொண்டவர்கள் யாருமில்லை. என் பெற்றோர்கள் கூட என்னைச் சரியாகப் புரிந்து கொள்ளவில்லை. ஆகவே மற்றவர்கள் யாராவது என்னைப் புரிந்து கொண்டதாகச் சொன்னால் என்னால் நம்புவதற்குக் கடினமாகத்தான் இருக்கிறது. சிரிப்பை அடக்குவதற்கும் கஷ்டமாகத்தான் இருக்கிறது. ஜெமினி கணேசன் பத்தி என்ன நினைக்கறீங்க? அவன் என்னோட ஆதி கால நண்பன்.... Read more

Prakash No Padachhayo

By: Dinkar Joshi

Narrated by: Darshan Jariwala

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

દિનકર જોશી ની લખેલી પુસ્તક પ્રકાશ નો પડછાયો નું ઓડિયો રૂપાંતર દર્શન જરીવાલા ની આવાઝ માં ગુજરાતી નવલકથા ક્ષેત્રે જીવનકથનાત્મક નવલકથાઓની આગવી જ કેડી કંડારનારી આ નવલકથા ગાંધીજીના જ્યેષ્ઠ પુત્ર હરિલાલના જીવન ઉપર આધારિત છે. ગાંધીજીના પારિવારિક જીવનમાં પિતા પુત્ર વચ્ચેનો માનસિક સંઘર્ષ એમની કરુણાંતિકા હતી. આ કરુણાંતિકામાં કસ્તુરબાની વ્યથા સર્વથી અધિક... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Sumit Kaul

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prophet is a book of prose poetry that made its Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran famous. Originally published in 1923, the book begins with a man named Almustafa living on an island called Orphalese. Locals consider him something of a sage, but he is from elsewhere and has waited twelve years for the right ship to take him home. From a... Read more

Darshan Dnyaneshwari

By: V. G. Kanitkar

Narrated by: Rahul Solapurkar

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

श्री. वि. ग. कानिटकर यांनी या छोट्या "दर्शन-ज्ञानेश्वरी" पुस्तकामध्ये आजच्या साहित्यप्रेमी धावत्या वाचकास ज्ञानेश्वरीच्या साहित्यिक गोडीची भरपूर वानगी दिली आहे. ज्ञानेश्वरीकडे धर्मप्रेरणेने आणि धर्मजिज्ञासेनें वळणाऱ्या वाचकांइतकेच आजच्या काळांत ज्ञानेश्वरीच्या साहित्यगुणामुळें आकर्षित होणारे लोक पुष्कळ आहेत. आधुनिक सुशिक्षितांचा कल... Read more

Bakshinama

By: Chandrakant Bakshi

Narrated by: Darshan Jariwala

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The autobiography of Chandrakant Bakshi was partially published in serialized form in Gujarati daily Samkalin. The book takes us on a ride from his days in Kolkata to being sheriff of Bombay. Read more

Mahajati Gujarati

By: Chandrakant Bakshi

Narrated by: Pratik Gandhi

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Versatile actor Pratik Gandhi narrates Chandrakant Bakshi's most loved book Mahjati Gujarati. ચંદ્રકાંત બક્ષીની મહાજાતિ ગુજરાતી પ્રતિક ગાંધીએ સંભળાવી છે." Read more

Betrayed By Hope

By: Malashri Lal & Namita Gokhale

Narrated by: Sushmita Sen & Victor Banerjee

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824--1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic, 'Meghnadhbadh Kabya', was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life, Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the English language, changed his religion and was a... Read more