Literary Criticism audiobooks

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

Index, A History of the

By: Dennis Duncan

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or... Read more

Bokya Satbande Part 1

By: Dilip Prabhavalkar

Narrated by: Dilip Prabhavalkar

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

बोक्या सातबंडे हा दिलीप प्रभावळकर यांचा मानसपुत्र. तो आहे निर्मळ मनाचा नि धाडसी वृत्तीचा. व्रात्य पण वांड नाही आणि खोडकर पण खोडसाळ नाही. गरजूला मदत करायला आणि ढोंगी माणसाच्या वर्मावर बोट ठेवायला त्याला आवडतं. तर असा हा खट्याळ बोक्या सातबंडे प्रत्येक संकटातून नि अग्निदिव्यातून मात्र सहीसलामत सुटतो. कसा? ते या गोष्टीतून तुम्हाला कळेलच. पण या... Read more

101 المعركة الأخيرة

By: جهاد الترباني

Narrated by: داود عفيشات

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"إذا كنت تخوض معركتك الأخيرة، فاجعلها معركة حاسمة، وحدد أنت نهايتها" الرواية الرابعة من سلسلة 101 للكاتب الفلسطيني جهاد الترباني. مغامرة جديدة بين الأحداث التاريخية، بين اليونان وتركيا وغزة، تدور الأحداث ويواصل نضال وعبدالعزيز بحثهم عن كنز فاندال الأسطوري، محاولين فك رموز اللغز. يدخل بطل جديد إلى ساحة الأحداث، مارتن، ونبحر بعيدًا إلى مقاومة... Read more

Quetzalcoatl

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a hard name to pronounce, but hey, it’s been the legend of Native American peoples for centuries.Was it a man? Was it a god? Was it a white person? Or was it some animal or strange thing?Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec divine being whose name originates from the Nahuatl language and meaning "valuable snake" or "Quetzal-feathered... Read more

Gula y cultura

By: Hector Sagal

Narrated by: Miguel Guerrero

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

La comida y la bebida son, sin duda, personajes fundamentales de la gran literatura. Basta con abrir un libro para encontrarnos con la tentadora manzana de Eva, la ruta de la pimienta que recorrió Marco Polo o el Quijote y sus jamones y garbanzos. Read more

The Writer’s Crusade

By: Tom Roston

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then... Read more

Please Miss

By: Grace Lavery

Narrated by: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery & Marc Vietor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a... Read more

The Subplot

By: Megan Walsh

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?

The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars,... Read more

Apurvai

By: Pu La Deshpande

Narrated by: Aastad Kale

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

युरोप प्रवासाबाबत आता लोकांमध्ये फारशी अपुर्वाई राहिलेली नाही, मात्र त्या काळात पुलंनी केलेला युरोपचा दौरा कसा होता, त्यादरम्यान काय गंमतीजमती घडल्या, पुलंच्या नजरेतला युरोप कसा दिसतो, हे ऐकण्याची उत्सुकता मात्र अजूनही प्रत्येकाला असेल, कारण पुलंचा मिश्किल स्वभाव, निखळ विनोद आणि सभोवार बघण्याची दृष्टी! ऐका आणि अनुभवा 'अपुर्वाई' आस्ताद काळेंसह! Read more

Black and Blur

By: Fred Moten

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that... Read more

JESÚS DE NAZARET

By: Suria Pombo

Narrated by: Olvido Gómez

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta narración de la vida de Jesús de Nazaret contada para todas las edades busca sembrar el mensaje de amor del hijo de Dios; una semilla que debe estar siempre presente en nuestros corazones. Su ejemplo, sus palabras, sus milagros y su entrega por nosotros nos purifica. Por ese motivo su mensaje debe ser contado una y otra vez, de todas las... Read more

Srinivasa Ramanujan

By: Dr Vasundhara Bhupathi

Narrated by: Avinash Kamat

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Short biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan Read more

Folge 1: Runde um den Block

By: Eazy Eizbär

Narrated by: Eazy Eizbär, Edgar Wyrwa, Katharina Wyrwa & Len...

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Folge 1 von "EAZY EIZBÄR — In der Arktis gehts up!" begeben sich der vegetarische EAZY EIZBÄR und der Schneehase HOPZ auf eine "Runde um den Block". Dabei lernen Sie die kluge Robbe Andrea kennen, der EAZY erstmal einen großen Schrecken einjagt. Außerdem lernen Sie den Großwildjäger Maximilis von Malizius und seinen Diener, den Jagdhund... Read more

Sigmund Freud

By: Dr C R Chandrashekar

Narrated by: Avinash Kamat

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Short biography of Sigmund Freud Read more

Karl Marx

By: G.Ramakrishna

Narrated by: Avinash Kamat

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Short biography of Karl Marx Read more

C V Raman

By: Dr Vasundhara Bhupathi

Narrated by: Avinash Kamat

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Short biography of C V Raman Read more

Nelson Mandela

By: Y. G. Muralidharan

Narrated by: Avinash Kamat

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Short biography of Nelson Mandela Read more

Guerrieri

By: Jack Ludlow

Narrated by: Gianluca Testa

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Italia meridionale, undicesimo secolo. Il potere esercitato sulla Puglia da parte dell'impero bizantino sta iniziando a scricchiolare. Rivolte e tumulti imperversano lungo la costa adriatica. Il longobardo Arduino, un mercenario al servizio del generale Michele Doceano, decide di sequestrare la fortezza di Melfi. L'unico modo per fronteggiare... Read more

Alice's Adventures Underground

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Phil Chenevert

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and... Read more

Alexandre Herculano - Abridged

By: Jacira Alves Milan

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Conheça a importância do grande mito de Portugal: foi soldado na guerra civil na luta contra o absolutismo, exilado e redator de uma importante revista em seu país, onde denunciava as manobras políticas comandadas pelo clero e pelo império português. Em seu exílio sofreu grande influência de pensadores franceses. Alexandre Herculano, empenhado... Read more

Pesme za decu

By: Jovan Jovanović Zmaj

Narrated by: Radmila Šinke

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Izabrane pesme Jovana Jovanovića Zmaja. Pesme su pogodne za divne poslepodnevne trenutke ili kao priče za laku noć. Za decu svih uzrasta. Pesme: "Vetar, Srda, Materina maza, Mali konjanik, Dete i leptir, Ala je lep ovaj svet, Pačija škola, Mali div, Zima, zima, e pa šta je, Zeka iz jendeka, Patak i žabe, Nećeš Lijo što si htela, Ćuran i... Read more

The Short Story

By: Andrew Kahn

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What defines a modern short story is much more than a question of length. Despite the efforts of early pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe, the genre was originally synonymous with the anecdote or tale and seen more as entertainment than art. However it has become far more than that, and this Very Short Introduction considers afresh the form's ongoing... Read more

Mary Melody und die verlorene Stimme

By: Karin Obermaier

Narrated by: Felicitas Weiß

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Hörbuch zum Buch - mit 12 zauberhaften Songs! Schon als Kind konnte Mary Melody mit ihrer Stimme alle Menschen verzaubern. Und das hat sich bis heute nicht geändert. Wenn sie singt, verschwinden plötzlich alle Probleme wie von selbst. Mit dieser magischen Zauberkraft schafft sie es, Streit, Kummer und Hass aus der Welt zu vertreiben. ... Read more