Literary Criticism audiobooks

Frankenstein (Unabridged)

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Michael Roman

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. The ship becomes trapped in ice, and, one day, the crew sees a dog sled in the... Read more

B. J. Harrison Reads The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: B. J. Harrison

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" is perhaps the most influential and widely acclaimed play by William Shakespeare. The tragedy follows Prince Hamlet as he concocts a plan to avenge the death of his father, who was murdered by his uncle Claudius in order to take the throne. Suspenseful, supernatural, moody, and full of twists, Hamlet is... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged)

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Oliver Eli

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class,... Read more

Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare & SparkNotes

Narrated by: James Fouhey, Imani Jade Powers, Nikki Massoud,...

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!

Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.

Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio... Read more

Recovering the Lost Art of Reading

By: Leland Ryken & Glenda Mathes

Narrated by: Al Kessel & Nan McNamara

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading



In today's technology-driven culture, reading has become a lost art. With smartphones offering information at the tap of a finger, reading a book is often seen as a tedious and outdated activity. Christians are not immune to this problem, as many find it hard to read books—even the Bible—consistently... Read more

A Place Like Mississippi

By: W. Ralph Eubanks

Narrated by: James Shippey

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir

The South has produced some of America’s most... Read more

Lolita in the Afterlife

By: Jenny Minton Quigley

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Marisol Ramirez, Paul Bellanton...

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse— art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and... Read more

Miguel de Cervantes

By: Jordi Gràcia

Narrated by: Jordi Gràcia

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

En el año Cervantes Taurus publica Miguel de Cervantes. La conquista de la ironía, un libro llamado a convertirse en la nueva biografía de referencia de nuestro autor más universal. Esta biografía aspira a despojar a Cervantes de los 400 años de historia que le han caído encima para acercarnos a su dimensión humana y sentimental, a su condición... Read more

Poemas de amor, violencia y muerte

By: Laura Libertaria

Narrated by: Cynthia Cárdenas

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Te gustaría conocer poemas de amor que no caen en clichés? ¿Te interesa la poesía feminista? Este libro es para ti.

En esta antología poética publicamos una selección con los mejores poemas de Laura, clasificados por los temas principales sobre los que trata su obra.

Laura es una escritora polifacética, domina tanto el verso como la prosa, tras... Read more

8 Books That Changed the World

By: Joseph Luzzi

Narrated by: Joseph Luzzi

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Professor Joseph Luzzi uncovers the mysteries of 8... Read more

Duryodhanization: Are villains born, made, or made up?

By: Nishant Uppal

Narrated by: Derek Denzil

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Duryodhana was a man of strong character and integrity.Duhsshasana was respectful, generous and kind towards women.Shakuni was a simple man who loved his subjects unconditionally.Dhana Nanda, Aurangzeb and Hitler possessed admirable leadership traits.'Duryodhanization' refers to the birth and processes of development of a villainous... Read more

Anton hebt ab

By: Oliver Wulf

Narrated by: Oliver Wulf

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Anton hat zwar Flügel - wirklich fliegen kann der kleine Dino aber nicht. Das ist aber kein Problem, dass der Acheopteryx mit seinen Freunden Ben, dem besonnenen Brachiosaurus, Siggi, dem schlauen Stegosaurus und Theo, dem tollkühnen aber etwas tollpatschigen Triceratops nicht lösen könnte. So erleben die vier Freunde in der Dino-Kita ein... Read more

Die Insel der wilden Träume

By: Susanne Braun

Narrated by: Julia von Tettenborn

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Die junge Tierärztin Susanne Braun ist den deutschen Praxisalltag leid und entscheidet sich, ihren Traum zu leben: Sie kündigt, löst ihre Wohnung auf, macht mit dem Freund Schluss und geht auf die Fähre. Ziel: Ihre Herzensinsel Island, die sie schon als Schülerin besuchen durfte. Doch dort erwartet sie kein Urlaub, sondern ein mühsamer Neuanfang... Read more

Poems for kids

By: na hEireann Publishing

Narrated by: Yekaterina Degtyareva

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This poems for kids audiobook contains original never heard before silly poems for kids. Each poem has a unique and engaging theme to keep the kids entertained.. Why not play these poems for young children before bedtime to help your child relax after the day and create special memories they will cherish forever. Read more

Simply Chekhov

By: Carol Apollonio

Narrated by: Victoria Meakin

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in the port city of Taganrog in southern Russia, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) survived a difficult childhood with an abusive father and put himself through school (while supporting his family), qualifying as a physician in 1884. At the same time he began practicing medicine, he also became celebrated for his short fiction, which redefined the... Read more

Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Nicholas Khan & Roy McMillan

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan.

One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history

In his near-contemporary account of... Read more

The Last Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Justin Avoth & Laurence Dobiesz

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth.

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'

Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a... Read more

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

By: Olaudah Equiano

Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Olaudah Equiano was born in Eboe in 1745, and lived among his family and culture until he was kidnapped later, which began a chain of being sold and moved around Africa, to Barbados, and eventually to England, where he served a man as a crewmate on a ship. From there, Equiano was transferred between many owners, but was constantly seeking any... Read more

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: David Dear

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years after the Civil War, there was an unfortunate amount of importance placed on racial identity. The focus on the races of one’s parents remained a mainstay of culture due to systemic prejudice and racism, and was a way of continuing to enact violence against Black people. For many mixed-race people, it felt safer to try and shift into... Read more

Ekta Jeev

By: Anita Padhye

Narrated by: Ganesh Divekar

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

मराठी चित्रपटांवर अधिराज्य गाजवणारे दादा कोंडके यांची हे चरित्र आहे. प्रख्यात विनोदी अभिनेते एवढीच त्यांची ओळख नाही. गीतं, संवाद, लेखनं यशस्वी चित्रपट निर्माता, दिग्दर्शक, आणि एक उत्तम माणूस अशी त्यांची ओळख आहे. त्यांचं व्यक्तिमत्व प्रगल्भ, बहुआयामी होतं, पडद्यावरचं त्यांचं आयुष्य अनेकांनी अनेक वेळा पाहिलं असेल, पण दादा पडद्यामागे कसे होते. याची... Read more

Das Gute im Menschen. Erzählungen und Essays - Abridged

By: Heinrich Mann

Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann & Volker Hanisch

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heinrich Mann war ein deutscher Romancier, Dramatiker, Novellist und Essayist. In seinen Texten übt er in pointierten, satirischen Formulierungen Kritik an den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen und den sozialen Ungerechtigkeiten seiner Zeit. Den Themen bürgerliche Scheinmoral, Macht und Unterwerfung, Herrschaft und Unterdrückung... Read more

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

By: Bobby Henderson

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Can I get a “ramen” from the congregation?!

Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’ s devout... Read more

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

By: Abraham Riesman

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost
 
HUGO AWARD FINALIST • EISNER AWARD NOMINEE • “True Believer is in every imaginable way the biography that Stan Lee deserves—ambitious, audacious, daring, and unflinchingly clear-eyed about the... Read more

True Leadership . . . Where is It?

By: Steve Lundquist

Narrated by: Charles Hubbell

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Our world is changing rapidly. Everything in today’s world is connected, except top leadership in BIG Business and BIG Politics, AND WE the PEOPLE. For good or bad, WE are on a collision course with OUR destiny. Top leadership is failing, but the leadership solution is within OUR power . . . OUR connection. In True Leadership . . . Where Is It?... Read more