Literary Criticism audiobooks

Semicolon

By: Cecelia Watson

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark

The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson... Read more

High Heel

By: Summer Brennan

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?



Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves... Read more

Mythology

By: Bernard Hayes

Narrated by: Kyle Walton & Zachary Dylan Brown

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 1: In Chinese mythology, there is so much symbolism, and there are so many wise lessons to discover. It’s almost criminal that Western civilization studies Greek or Roman myths but leaves all the Chinese gods and goddesses to themselves. In this guide, we’ll delve deeper into these mystical beings and the beliefs surrounding them, whether... Read more

Notes from an Even Smaller Island

By: Neil Humphreys

Narrated by: Neil Humphreys

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Knowing nothing of Singapore, young Englishman Neil Humphreys arrives in the land of 'air-conned' shopping centres and Lee Kuan Yew. From the aunties in the hawker centres to expats dressed as bananas, from Singlish to kiasuism, and from Singaporeans at home to Singaporeans abroad, Humphreys explores all aspects of Singaporean life, taking in... Read more

Beatrix Potter

By: Linda Lear

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this now classic biography, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Beatrix Potter found freedom from her conventional Victorian upbringing in the countryside. Nature inspired her imagination as an artist and scientific illustrator, but The Tale of... Read more

Quetzalcoatl: The History and Legacy of the Feathered Serpent God in Mesoamerican Mythology

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Bill Hare

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to Quetzalcoatl all across Mesoamerica. From the Aztec to the Maya, Quetzalcoatl - the Feathered Serpent - rears his beautiful head from magnificent relief carvings in temples no less grandiose than the largest pyramid in the region, that of Cholula in Mexico. Furthermore,... Read more

How a Poem Moves 

By: Adam Sol

Narrated by: Adam Sol & Soraya Peerbaye

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging... Read more

If

By: Christopher Benfey

Narrated by: Joshua Kane

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature

At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded... Read more

El último encuentro

By: Humberto Acosta

Narrated by: René Sagastume

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Tras el espectáculo que llamamos beisbol de Grandes Ligas, existe un submundo muy competitivo al que el fanático común no tiene acceso. Es en este escenario donde dos de las más brillantes figuras del beisbol universal, el imbatible toletero boricua Roberto Clemente y el indescifrable lanzador judío Sandy Koufax se enfrentaron en una rencilla... Read more

Noches de estriptís

By: Andrés Delgado

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Una exploración en profundidad por el mundo del sexo que se compra y se vende, la tras escena virtual o clandestina de quienes viven de despertar el deseo de los demás, visto a través de la mirada sagaz y desprejuiciada del autor, quien en un auténtico proceso de inmersión y sin dejar de lado el punto de vista objetivo de la ciencia o el... Read more

Más allá de los 90 minutos

By: Edgar Rodríguez, Andrés Alba & Santiago Torres

Narrated by: German Torre

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro contiene 99 historias cortas de los Mundiales, un compilado de relatos de episodios singulares que tuvieron lugar alrededor de cada uno de los torneos, desde Uruguay 1930 hasta Brasil 2014. Historias que van más allá del juego y presentan el fútbol como el fenómeno social que es, ligado a la cultura popular, la política, la música o... Read more

El día que murió el fútbol

By: Victor Rosas

Narrated by: Bobby Sanchez

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Una seria y serena reflexión acerca del fútbol colombiano, que toma como punto de referencia el asesinato de Andrés Escobar, ocurrido hace veinte años, el 2 de julio de 1994. En esta obra aborda los principales problemas que han aquejado a los seleccionados nacionales en sus participaciones en la Copa Mundo, así como sus grandes momentos y... Read more

Funderelele y más hallazgos de la lengua

By: Laura García Arroyo

Narrated by: Laura García Arroyo

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Las palabras son lo que comunican y la historia que cuentan. O las historias, mejor dicho, pues tienen una en el diccionario y como parte del idioma, y otra como parte de la vida de quien las usa. Y quizá ésta sea la más interesante: ¿cómo empezamos a usar una palabra?, ¿por qué elegimos ésa y no otra para nuestro vocabulario? Las respuestas... Read more

A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories

By: Lu Xun

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is A Madman’s Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s. Read more

How to Read the Constitution--and Why

By: Kim Wehle

Narrated by: Kim Wehle

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

""A must-read for this era.”—Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the... Read more

Diese Witze machen Männer wütend

By: Der Spassdigga

Narrated by: Der Spassdigga

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Lachen darüber wirklich nur Frauen? Begeben sie sich in eine humorvolle Dimension die sich in besonderer Weise dem schwachen Geschlecht widmet, dem Mann. Gute und kurzweilige Unterhaltung! Read more

Planet Narnia

By: Michael Ward

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won... Read more

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

By: Anne Boyer

Narrated by: Sky Goodden

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs, time, Kansas City, and other impossible questions.  Read more

Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Jack Nolan

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including... Read more

The Ministry of Truth

By: Dorian Lynskey

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, The Atlantic 

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high... Read more

Raising Readers

By: Megan Daley

Narrated by: Helena Plazzer

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential guide for every parent and educator – all you need to know about inspiring children to read.
Some kids refuse to read, others won't stop. Either way, many parents question the best way to support their child's literacy journey. When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader?... Read more

A Delicate Aggression

By: David O. Dowling

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and facultyAs the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight... 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

Der rote Seidenschal

By: Robert Marks

Narrated by: Alexander Wikarski, Jürgen Pabst, Mathias Lodd,...

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Krimi Hörspiel: Inspektor Ganimard wird in rätselhafte Ereignisse verstrickt. Was steckt hinter dem Geheimnis des roten Seidenschals? Steckt sein alter Widersacher, der Meisterdieb Arsene Lupin, dahinter? Read more