Literary Criticism audiobooks

How To Write a Children's Book

By: HowExpert & Rusty Baker

Narrated by: Krystal Wascher

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to write a children's book, then get "How to Write a Children's Book" by a person with real life experience and knowledge in this topic.If you have ever wanted to write a true children’s classic, then you must dive into a child’s mind to see what makes them tick. Within the pages of this guide, all your questions will be expertly... Read more

Le bal

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cloé Horry

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé " Suite française ". Le Bal, dont... Read more

Les vierges et autres nouvelles

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cloé Horry

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Contient les 12 nouvelles suivantes : Film parlé, Echo, Magie, En raison des circonstances, Les cartes, La peur, L'inconnue, La voleuse, Les revenants, L'ami et la femme, La grande allée, Les vierges. Douze portraits de femmes, toutes différents mais écrits avec talent et finesse. Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française,... Read more

Les mouches d'automne

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cloé Horry

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, née à Kiev en 1903 et morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé Suite... Read more

Jézabel

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cloé Horry

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé " Suite française ". Jézabel, roman... Read more

Ida

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cloé Horry

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé " Suite française ". Ida, une... Read more

You Play the Girl

By: Carina Chocano

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY"If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."—ELLEAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around... Read more

Coventry

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and artRachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the... Read more

Chumm mit i Schnee

By: Eva Klaus

Narrated by: Yvonn Scherrer

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Papa, es schneit! D Lena luegt zum Fänschter us. Ändlech schneits. Geng meh u meh Flocke chöme drhär. So schöni Flocke... wi Flüümli?...wi Fäderli? Wi Naselümpe, meint dr Papa. Er luegt ufe Biudschirm vo sim Läptop, scho dr ganz Morge. Chunsch mit mir use? fragt d Lena. Lueg, s isch scho aus wiiss: d Büsch si wiiss u d Böim si wiiss, dr... Read more

How to Read Novels Like a Professor

By: Thomas C. Foster

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age... Read more

死神的義子

By: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Narrated by: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

兒童故事: 格林童話-死神的義子 (有聲粵語)
簡介: 一位年老的大叔，遇上了天使與魔鬼，天使給他平安，魔鬼給他財富，但捱餓的日子他會如何選擇呢？
時間長度: 14:02 分鐘說書人: 阿豆 (Tonkabean)
原著格林童話來自19世紀的德國民間文學故事。（德語：Grimms Märchen） 多部偉大的作品來自兩位偉大的人物 (格林兄弟-Die Gebrüder Grimm) （雅各布·格林-Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm，1785年1月4日－1863年9月20日）及 (威廉·卡爾·格林-Wilhelm Carl Grimm，1786年2月24日－1859年12月16日）
主題音樂: Stefan Ruesche Sound文編: 阿豆
繪圖: Pixabay: Men... Read more

白雪與紅玫

By: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Narrated by: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

兒童故事: 格林童話-白雪與紅玫 (有聲粵語)
簡介: 一個孤僻的農舍裡住著一位貧窮的寡婦，女兒白雪與紅玫，她們遇上了動物，她們遇上了人，也遇上了老妖精…
時間長度: 11:43 分鐘說書人: 阿豆 (Tonkabean)
原著格林童話來自19世紀的德國民間文學故事。（德語：Grimms Märchen） 多部偉大的作品來自兩位偉大的人物 (格林兄弟-Die Gebrüder Grimm) （雅各布·格林-Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm，1785年1月4日－1863年9月20日）及 (威廉·卡爾·格林-Wilhelm Carl Grimm，1786年2月24日－1859年12月16日）
主題音樂: Ruesche-Sounds文編: 阿豆
繪圖: Pixabay:... Read more

Monster, She Wrote

By: Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it.... Read more

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & John F. Callahan

Length: 49 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades

These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph... Read more

The Literature Book

By: DK

Narrated by: Katherine Press

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing.

The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays, and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling... Read more

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

By: Larry W. Phillips

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or... Read more

S01E04 Sant Tukaram: Bhakti Prem Vidroh

By: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Narrated by: Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

भारतीय कविता की एक महान परम्परा है जो समय, इतिहास, भूगोल और विभिन्न भाषाओं के आर-पार फैली है. सुप्रसिद्ध हिंदी कवि और हिंदी भाषा के नये आत्मविश्वास के अग्रणी नायक कुमार विश्वास अपनी पहली ऑडियो ओरिजिनल सीरीज़ में हमें इस महान परम्परा की कश्मीर से कन्याकुमारी तक की यात्रा करवा रहे हैं और आग्रह कर रहे हैं कि हम भक्ति, प्रेम और विद्रोह की इस विलक्षण... Read more

Ashi Pakhare Yeti

By: Vijay Tendulkar

Narrated by: Various Narrators

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

विजय तेंडुलकर लिखित मराठी नाटक "अशी पाखरे येती " Read more

T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - 1957

By: T.S. Eliot

Narrated by: Horatio William Parker

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Great reading by a poet who wrote some excellent poems. Read more

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

By: Sydney Greenstreet

Narrated by: White Bison

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants

By: Umberto Eco & Alastair McEwen

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see... Read more

不萊梅樂隊

By: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Narrated by: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

兒童故事: 格林童話-不萊梅樂隊 (有聲粵語)
簡介: 一匹驢子牠辛辛苦苦地為主人幹了一輩子，但它老了，主人就感到牠沒有什麼價值，還想把牠殺掉來做食物。驢子知道了就決定逃到不萊梅市當一個音樂家…"
時間長度: 12:22 分鐘說書人: 阿豆 (Tonkabean)
原著格林童話來自19世紀的德國民間文學故事。（德語：Grimms Märchen） 多部偉大的作品來自兩位偉大的人物 (格林兄弟-Die Gebrüder Grimm) （雅各布·格林-Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm，1785年1月4日－1863年9月20日）及 (威廉·卡爾·格林-Wilhelm Carl Grimm，1786年2月24日－1859年12月16日）
主題音樂: Stefan Ruesche... Read more

四個聰明的兄弟

By: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Narrated by: Tonkabean & 東加豆

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

兒童故事: 格林童話-四個聰明的兄弟 (有聲粵語)
簡介: 這是一個四兄弟的故事，他們有愛，他們想要有一技之長來擺脫貧困…
時間長度: 10:19 分鐘說書人: 阿豆 (Tonkabean)
原著格林童話來自19世紀的德國民間文學故事。（德語：Grimms Märchen） 多部偉大的作品來自兩位偉大的人物 (格林兄弟-Die Gebrüder Grimm) （雅各布·格林-Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm，1785年1月4日－1863年9月20日）及 (威廉·卡爾·格林-Wilhelm Carl Grimm，1786年2月24日－1859年12月16日）
主題音樂: Stefan Ruesche Sound文編: 阿豆
繪圖: Pixabay: Brother>Gerd... Read more

Dictionary of the Undoing

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass & John Freeman

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in... Read more