- Anthologies & Short Stories (4,371)
- Genre Fiction (25,839)
- Literary History & Criticism (720)
- World Literature (2,718)
- Classics (6,112)
- Historical Fiction (14,435)
Most Popular
-
Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
-
Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
-
The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
-
-
Adapted
- By Lucy on 18-01-2017
-
Pere Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....
-
Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
-
-
Interesting and funny insights
- By Anonymous User on 30-04-2024
-
Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work...
-
Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
-
Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
-
The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
-
-
Adapted
- By Lucy on 18-01-2017
-
Pere Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....
-
Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
-
-
Interesting and funny insights
- By Anonymous User on 30-04-2024
-
Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work...
-
How to Write a Sentence
- And How to Read One
- By: Stanley Fish
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving listeners an instant play-by-play....
-
No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth
- By: SparkNotes
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Wayne Carr, Eileen Stevens, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable....
-
A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
-
-
Great book and brilliantly narrated
- By Fiona on 01-11-2018
-
Marseille 1940
- Die große Flucht der Literatur
- By: Uwe Wittstock
- Narrated by: Julian Mehne
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Lion Feuchtwanger, nach Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel und...
-
Short Stories in French for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Richard Simcott
- Narrated by: Louis Bernard
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment....
-
-
Not for levels A1 and A2.
- By Dido on 10-04-2022
-
Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....
-
-
Loved the authors voice
- By Anonymous User on 05-04-2021
-
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: CliffsNotes
- By: Elizabeth Conner
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Shaffer and Barrows' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society....
-
How Proust Can Change Your Life
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer....
-
-
Terri’s and improves with each listening
- By Peter C. Howie on 04-07-2019
-
The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- By: Maureen Murdock
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....
-
-
The journey into sacred union within
- By Kiannah Dower on 23-12-2023
-
My Shakespeare
- A Director’s Journey Through the First Folio
- By: Greg Doran
- Narrated by: Greg Doran
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, from 2012 until 2022....
-
The Kalevala
- By: Elias Lönnrot, Keith Bosley - translator
- Narrated by: Keith Bosley
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Kalevala provides a compelling insight into the myths and folklore of Finland....
-
-
A bit disappointing
- By Eric Birkicht on 08-01-2024
-
The Tragic Mind
- Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy....
-
-
About tragedy,
- By Anonymous User on 15-06-2023
-
The Tempest
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen, Emilia Fox, Scott Handy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....
-
-
Shakespeare and McKellen - a Perfect Combination
- By Roderic on 12-08-2019
-
Accidental Feminists
- By: Jane Caro
- Narrated by: Jane Caro
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Women over 55 are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now....
-
-
Amazing
- By Alison Holding on 25-02-2020
-
Ramayana
- India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom
- By: Krishna Dharma, Valmiki Ramayana
- Narrated by: Krishna Dharma
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ramayana must rank as one of the most loved and revered books of all time. A part of India's ancient Vedas, it is a beautiful story of romance and adventure....
-
-
Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 18-09-2019
-
The Year of Reading Dangerously
- How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
- By: Andy Miller
- Narrated by: Andy Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, memoir — a true story that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books....
-
-
Laugh out loud, made me want to read more
- By Happy recipient on 11-10-2020
-
As I Lay Dying
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish....
-
-
Finally finished it
- By Anonymous User on 29-04-2023
-
Catching the Light
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrated by: Joy Harjo
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing....
-
Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly....
-
-
Fabulous story
- By Erica on 29-01-2021
-
The Crucible: CliffsNotes
- By: Jennifer L. Scheidt M.A.
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This CliffsNotes study guide on Arthur Miller's The Crucible supplements the original literary work....
-
12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and others
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, and others
- Length: 89 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1 and learn about these classic books: Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, and more....
-
Oedipus the King
- By: Sophocles
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference....
-
A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
-
Furies
- Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
- By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, and others
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up the words that tell a story and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago....
-
-
Every woman should read this book
- By Lady Stark on 23-06-2023
New Releases
-
Romeo and Juliet: Simple Shakespeare Series
- The Classic Play Adapted to Modern Language
- By: Jeanette Vigon
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ross
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This iconic play is brought to life in modern English, allowing listeners to fully immerse themselves in the passion, conflict, and heartbreak of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece. Experience the power of love and the consequences of feuding families without the barrier of archaic language. Whether you're encountering the story for the first time or revisiting it with fresh eyes, this adaptation promises to evoke all the emotions of the original while making it accessible to a modern audience.
-
The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth
- The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More
- By: Thersa Matsuura
- Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today. From the sly kitsune to the orgrish oni and mischievous shape-shifting tanuki, learn all about the origins of these fantastical and mythical creatures. With information on their cultural significance, and how it’s been spun into today’s popular culture, this tome teaches you about the stories and histories of the beings that inspired characters in your favorite movies, animes, manga, and games.
-
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900
- By: Sandra M. Gustafson
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement's consequential emphasis on arbitration.
-
The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love between a dying girl from a noble family and a humble county doctor. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu","Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
-
A Room of One's Own
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"A Room of One's Own" began life as a pair of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge and was published as a stand-alone book in 1929. In this brilliant examination of literature, history and gender discrimination, Woolf posits that the dearth of female writers in literature did not result from a lack of talent; it was the lack of opportunity.
-
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians
- True stories of the magic of reading
- By: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Jennifer Pickens, Jenn Lee, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
To be a bookseller or librarian...you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'. In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians.
-
Romeo and Juliet: Simple Shakespeare Series
- The Classic Play Adapted to Modern Language
- By: Jeanette Vigon
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ross
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This iconic play is brought to life in modern English, allowing listeners to fully immerse themselves in the passion, conflict, and heartbreak of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece. Experience the power of love and the consequences of feuding families without the barrier of archaic language. Whether you're encountering the story for the first time or revisiting it with fresh eyes, this adaptation promises to evoke all the emotions of the original while making it accessible to a modern audience.
-
The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth
- The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More
- By: Thersa Matsuura
- Narrated by: Thersa Matsuura
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan’s folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today. From the sly kitsune to the orgrish oni and mischievous shape-shifting tanuki, learn all about the origins of these fantastical and mythical creatures. With information on their cultural significance, and how it’s been spun into today’s popular culture, this tome teaches you about the stories and histories of the beings that inspired characters in your favorite movies, animes, manga, and games.
-
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900
- By: Sandra M. Gustafson
- Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement's consequential emphasis on arbitration.
-
The District Doctor
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The short story The District Doctor by Turgenev, written in 1848, is part of the "Sportsman's Sketches" cycle. It tells the tale of a hopeless love between a dying girl from a noble family and a humble county doctor. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "A Nest of Noblemen", "Biryuk", "On the Eve", "Mumu","Fire at Sea", "The Wayside Inn", "The Watch", "Three Portraits", "A Strange Story", "The Meeting", etc.
-
A Room of One's Own
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Sara Nichols
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"A Room of One's Own" began life as a pair of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge and was published as a stand-alone book in 1929. In this brilliant examination of literature, history and gender discrimination, Woolf posits that the dearth of female writers in literature did not result from a lack of talent; it was the lack of opportunity.
-
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians
- True stories of the magic of reading
- By: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Jennifer Pickens, Jenn Lee, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
To be a bookseller or librarian...you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'. In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians.
-
Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth comes an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.
-
Seance
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"
-
Psalm
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Psalm is a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. I will buy a dog on Saturday ; I will sing a psalm at night ; I will order shoes for tailcoat... ; But it's okay. Somehow... we will live.
-
Moonshine Springs
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Moonshine springs - is a satirical story by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), an outstanding writer, playwright and theatre worker. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.
-
Warriors' Wives
- Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
- By: Emma Bridges
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner's breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle.
-
My Life with the Jedi
- The Spirituality of Star Wars
- By: Eric A. Clayton
- Narrated by: Michael Mola
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In My Life with the Jedi, award-winning author Eric A. Clayton intertwines lessons learned from the Star Wars universe with profound spiritual truths, inviting listeners on a journey that touches on the epic and the everyday. Dive into an interior galaxy where the mysteries of the Force meet the depths of Ignatian spirituality.
-
Beautiful Little Furies
- Compelling Women's Psychological Fiction
- By: Laurel Osterkamp
- Narrated by: Teresa Mastrobuono
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's 2004 in Minneapolis, and Hazel Ford is an English teacher at a diverse urban high school, where she loves discussing The Great Gatsby with her Advanced Placement students. Plus, she's crazy about her fiancé/fellow high school teacher, Vance. But when the two of them are involved in a horrific car accident, everything comes crashing down, leaving Hazel with a traumatic brain injury and no memory of the accident - or of her supposed breakup with Vance.
-
Reawakening the Magic, by Facing the Shadows, Volume 1
- By: Claire de Voyant
- Narrated by: Trevor Grant
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Once Upon a Time...for a Meaningful Discussion. Do the fairy tales we hold dear send messages we find unsettling today? This two-volume collection pulls back the curtain on beloved bedtime classics to uncover what public assumptions they could silently nurture about gender, violence and power. Volume 1 traces six iconic tales’ problematic roots in oral folklore and evolving messages across later literary adaptations.
-
Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- By: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
-
Reading Lessons
- The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark and Why They Matter
- By: Carol Atherton
- Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Over her twenty-five-year career, English teacher Carol Atherton has taught generations of students texts that will be familiar to many of us from our own schooldays. But while the staples of exam syllabuses and reading lists remain largely unchanged, their significance – and their relevance - evolves with each class as they encounter them for the first time. Each chapter of Reading Lessons invites us to take a fresh look at these novels, plays and poems, revealing how they have shaped our beliefs, our values, and how we interact as a society.
-
American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby?
- By: Blanchard House
- Narrated by: Joe Nocera
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Just before the small-time bootlegger Max Gerlach died, he tried to reveal his secret: he was the inspiration for the mysterious Jay Gatsby. It’s a nice story, but was he telling the truth? Veteran reporter Joe Nocera and producer Poppy Damon investigate this century-old literary mystery and uncover untold secrets about the Great American Novel.
-
Four Horsemen and the Rolling Thunder
- A Poetry and Prose Collection
- By: Joshua Wells
- Narrated by: Caleb Floyd
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
I could not imagine a world where everyone believes they think freely while another third watches them wander around like puppets doing the same repetitive things having burned out all their brain cells. They never questioned if they’ve even had a thought all their own.