Theory in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

by Susan Sontag ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

4 hours 38 min

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the ... Read more

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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the
... Read more
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

by Susan Sontag ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, ... Read more

$27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss,
... Read more
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Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian Masters

te your journey through profound Russian insights and masterful literary revelationsnot SetEleva

by Quinlan Blackthorn ...

Narrated by Nick Porter ...

Unabridged

2 hours 4 min

Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian MastersAre you eager to elevate your understanding and deepen your appreciation of literature through the illuminating works of Russian masters?In search of a comprehensive resource that encapsulates the essential elements to uncover profound truths through timeless literary masterpieces?Your quest ends here! This guide is your ultimate com... ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Literary Gold: Transformative Insights from Russian MastersAre you eager to elevate your understanding and deepen your appreciation of literature through the illuminating works of Russian masters?In search of a comprehensive resource that encapsulates the essential elements to uncover profound truths through timeless literary masterpieces?Your quest ends here! This guide is your ultimate com...
... Read more
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La civilización del espectáculo

by Mario Vargas Llosa ...

Narrated by Julio García ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

En el pasado, la cultura fue una especie de conciencia que impedía dar la espalda a la realidad. Ahora, actúa como mecanismo de distracción y entretenimiento. Escucha La civilización del espectáculo en audiolibro.«La cultura, en el sentido que tradicionalmente se ha dado a este vocablo, está en nuestros días a punto de desaparecer.»Mario Vargas LlosaLa banalización de las artes y la literatura, el ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

En el pasado, la cultura fue una especie de conciencia que impedía dar la espalda a la realidad. Ahora, actúa como mecanismo de distracción y entretenimiento. Escucha La civilización del espectáculo en audiolibro.«La cultura, en el sentido que tradicionalmente se ha dado a este vocablo, está en nuestros días a punto de desaparecer.»Mario Vargas LlosaLa banalización de las artes y la literatura, el
... Read more
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Twitter and Tear Gas

by Amit Varma ...

Narrated by Amit Varma ...

Series Audiobook 12 - The Book Club with Amit Varma
Unabridged

12 min

What does Shaheen Bagh have in common with Tahrir Square in Egypt and Gezi Park in Istanbul? A lot! In episode 12 of The Book Club, Amit Varma discusses 'Twitter and Tear Gas' by Zeynep Tufekci, which looks at the similarity in citizen protests across the world over the last decade. ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

What does Shaheen Bagh have in common with Tahrir Square in Egypt and Gezi Park in Istanbul? A lot! In episode 12 of The Book Club, Amit Varma discusses 'Twitter and Tear Gas' by Zeynep Tufekci, which looks at the similarity in citizen protests across the world over the last decade.
... Read more
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Blackface

Object Lessons

by Professor Ayanna Thompson ...

Narrated by Rachel Handshaw ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

Bloomsbury presents Blackface by Ayanna Thompson, read by Rachel Handshaw.A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of p... ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Bloomsbury presents Blackface by Ayanna Thompson, read by Rachel Handshaw.A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of p...
... Read more
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Bookshelf

Object Lessons

by Lydia Pyne ...

Narrated by Rachel Handshaw ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

Bloomsbury presents Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne, read by Rachel Handshaw.Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Bloomsbury presents Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne, read by Rachel Handshaw.Object Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds
... Read more
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Coffee

Object Lessons

by Dinah Lenney ...

Narrated by Lisa Rost-Welling ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 26 min

Bloomsbury presents…Coffeeby Dinah Lenneyread by Lisa Rost-WellingObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we ... Read more

$20.00 CAD

Bloomsbury presents…Coffeeby Dinah Lenneyread by Lisa Rost-WellingObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we
... Read more
Audiobook

Dust

Object Lessons

by Dr. Michael Marder ...

Narrated by Josh Wichard ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 8 min

Bloomsbury presents Dust by Michael Marder, read by Josh Wichard.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what ... Read more

$20.00 CAD

Bloomsbury presents Dust by Michael Marder, read by Josh Wichard.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what
... Read more
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Driver's License

Object Lessons

by Meredith Castile ...

Narrated by Barbara Barnes ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

4 hours 33 min

Bloomsbury presents…Driver’s Licenceby Meredith Castileread by Barbara BarnesObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated ... Read more

$20.00 CAD

Bloomsbury presents…Driver’s Licenceby Meredith Castileread by Barbara BarnesObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated
... Read more
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The Frenchmen

Or, My Life in Theory

by Emily Eakin ...

Narrated by Emily Eakin ...

Unabridged

15 hours

**“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly PossibleFrom leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its ... Read more

$37.00 CAD

**“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly PossibleFrom leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its
... Read more
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Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Paul Scofield ...

Abridged

5 hours 52 min

This comic masterpiece is read by Paul Schofield. It has been noted also by Dickens’ biographer, Forster, that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'."Martin Chuzzlewit" is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

This comic masterpiece is read by Paul Schofield. It has been noted also by Dickens’ biographer, Forster, that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'."Martin Chuzzlewit" is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to
... Read more
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Literary Theory: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Texts, Movements, and Meaning

by Rachel Hofmann ...

Narrated by Rachel Hofmann ...

Unabridged

2 hours 19 min

Turn intimidating academic jargon into accessible literary criticism that transforms your everyday reading experience. Whether you are commuting to an English literature lecture or preparing for a passionate book club debate, this thought-provoking guide makes complex ideas instantly usable. Say goodbye to academic gatekeeping and hello to crystal-clear textual analysis.Perfect for focused study ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Turn intimidating academic jargon into accessible literary criticism that transforms your everyday reading experience. Whether you are commuting to an English literature lecture or preparing for a passionate book club debate, this thought-provoking guide makes complex ideas instantly usable. Say goodbye to academic gatekeeping and hello to crystal-clear textual analysis.Perfect for focused study
... Read more
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Un Aladino y dos lámparas

by Jeanette Winterson ...

Narrated by Elsa Veiga ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

SHEREZADE INVENTA CUENTOS PARA APLAZAR LA MUERTE. WINTERSON LOS REESCRIBE PARA DEVOLVERNOS LA VIDA.Vuelve la mejor Jeanette Winterson con una revolucionaria obra inspirada en Las mil y una noches: un alegato sobre el poder de la imaginación como motor de cambio.«Winterson dinamita categorías, vocabularios y convenciones tristes. Una escritora maravillosa».Marta Sanz, BabeliaUna mujer lucha ... ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

SHEREZADE INVENTA CUENTOS PARA APLAZAR LA MUERTE. WINTERSON LOS REESCRIBE PARA DEVOLVERNOS LA VIDA.Vuelve la mejor Jeanette Winterson con una revolucionaria obra inspirada en Las mil y una noches: un alegato sobre el poder de la imaginación como motor de cambio.«Winterson dinamita categorías, vocabularios y convenciones tristes. Una escritora maravillosa».Marta Sanz, BabeliaUna mujer lucha ...
... Read more
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Gita Bodh

by Mahatma Gandhi ...

Narrated by Rajesh Kava ...

Unabridged

2 hours 22 min

આશ્રમવાસીઓ માટે યરોડા જેલમાંથી ગાંધીજી દર અઠવાડિયે ગીતાના એક એક અધ્યાયનો સાર મોકલતા હતા. તેનો પ્રારંભ તેમણે 12મા અધ્યાયથી કર્યો. ... Read more

$5.99 CAD

આશ્રમવાસીઓ માટે યરોડા જેલમાંથી ગાંધીજી દર અઠવાડિયે ગીતાના એક એક અધ્યાયનો સાર મોકલતા હતા. તેનો પ્રારંભ તેમણે 12મા અધ્યાયથી કર્યો.
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Art Monsters

Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

by Lauren Elkin ...

Narrated by Lauren Elkin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.**For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

**Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.**For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways
... Read more
Audiobook

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift ...

Narrated by Martin Shaw ...

Abridged

3 hours 9 min

Swift’s scornful satire, written “to vex the world rather than divert it”, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Swift’s scornful satire, written “to vex the world rather than divert it”, takes a caustic look at those most contemporary concerns irrational prejudice, social inequality, ivory tower elitism and the correct way to open a boiled egg.'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the
... Read more
Audiobook

Shipping Container

Object Lessons

by Dr. Craig Martin ...

Narrated by Matthew Biddulph ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

Bloomsbury presents…Shipping Containerby Craig Martinread by Matthew BiddulphObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and ... Read more

$20.00 CAD

Bloomsbury presents…Shipping Containerby Craig Martinread by Matthew BiddulphObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. 90% of the goods and
... Read more
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Snack

Object Lessons

by Eurie Dahn ...

Narrated by Megan Gage ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

2 hours 46 min

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and necessary. The multiple aisles devoted to sweet and savory treats in supermarkets, and the availability of snacks even at places like home
... Read more
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Radical Sacrifice

by Terry Eagleton ...

Narrated by Roger Clark ...

Unabridged

6 hours 56 min

The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were at odds. In this analysis, Terry Eagleton makes a compelling argument that the idea of sacrifice has long been misunderstood
... Read more
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

by Fredric Jameson ...

Narrated by Richard Crossman ...

Series series Post-contemporary interventions
Unabridged

23 hours 20 min

Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.This audiobook is expertly read by Richard Crossman, with audio engineering by Mikhail Shirokov. It was produced and ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.This audiobook is expertly read by Richard Crossman, with audio engineering by Mikhail Shirokov. It was produced and
... Read more
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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by Prunella Scales ...

Series series Argo Classics
Abridged

2 hours 52 min

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.The three Dashwood sisters move to a cottage in Devon with their widowed mother. There, they ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.The three Dashwood sisters move to a cottage in Devon with their widowed mother. There, they
... Read more
Audiobook

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë ...

Narrated by Martin Shaw ...

Abridged

3 hours 3 min

‘Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his revenge ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

‘Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine Earnshaw and the doomed outcome of that relationship, leading to his revenge
... Read more
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Videotape

Object Lessons

by Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy ...

Narrated by Noe Nishizawa ...

Series series Object Lessons
Unabridged

3 hours 40 min

Bloomsbury presents Videotape by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy by Noe NishizawaObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion.Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Bloomsbury presents Videotape by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy by Noe NishizawaObject Lessons is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion.Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the
... Read more

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