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Literary Theory & Criticism Audiobooks

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    The Poetic Edda

    Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

    by Jackson Crawford ...
    Narrated by Jackson Crawford ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    “The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Minor Feelings

    An Asian American Reckoning

    by Cathy Park Hong ...
    Narrated by Cathy Park Hong ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen**In development as a television series starring and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Indigenous City Edit

    by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Chief Ladybird, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson0, Ivy Knight2, Alex Jacobs-Blum4, Liz Howard6 ...
    Narrated by Dave Bidini, Waubgeshig Rice, Tom Wilson, Chief Ladybird, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoksake Simpson1, Ivy Knight3, Alex Jacobs-Blum5, Liz Howard7 ...
    Audiobook 2 - The City Edits

    Unabridged

    38 min

    West End Phoenix and Kobo Originals present the latest in the CITY EDITS collaboration: THE INDIGENOUS CITY EDIT is a collection of stories reflecting on living in Toronto as an Indigenous person, backed by original music and soundscapes. Featuring work by Waubgeshig Rice, Ryan McMahon, Leanne Betasamoke Simpson, Ivy Knight, Dave Bidini, Chief Ladybird, Alex Jacobs-Blum, Liz Howard and original ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Orwell's Roses

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Solnit ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood**“A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's“Nobody who reads it will ever ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    In Praise of Good Bookstores

    by Jeff Deutsch ...
    Narrated by Ako Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world—pays loving tribute to one of our most important and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Updike

    by Adam Begley ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 12 min

    A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Updike—a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and workIn this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Baker's Coven

    The Great Witches Baking Show

    by Nancy Warren ...
    Narrated by Hollis McCarthy ...
    Audiobook 2 - The Great Witches Baking Show

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    Can she bake a winning cake without getting iced?Competition is hotter than the pre-heated ovens as The Great British Baking Competition moves into cake week. Amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson has a lot to deal with, from learning she has talents she never knew about, to trying to keep cool and bake under pressure.She’s also trying to track down the secrets of her parentage. Meanwhile, she’s saved ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Rolling Scone

    A Culinary Paranormal Cozy Mystery

    by Nancy Warren ...
    Narrated by Hollis McCarthy ...
    Audiobook 3 - The Great Witches Baking Show

    Unabridged

    5 hours 59 min

    Butter, sugar, flour - and death!British amateur bakers must turn out the perfect scone in this week’s filming of The Great British Baking Contest. But fledgling witch Poppy is losing her concentration as she gets closer to discovering more of her own history at Broomewode Hall, a postcard-pretty manor house in Somerset, England. However, someone is warning her to leave as she’s in danger.Can she ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

    Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

    Narrated by Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, Janina Edwards, Emily Ellet, Cynthia Farrell, Soneela Nankani, David Sadzin, Keong Sim, Candace Thaxton0 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    “You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Red Comet

    The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

    by Heather Clark ...
    Narrated by Laura Jennings ...

    Unabridged

    45 hours 27 min

    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed**With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    The Great Witches Baking Show

    A culinary cozy mystery

    by Nancy Warren ...
    Narrated by Hollis McCarthy ...
    Audiobook 1 - The Great Witches Baking Show

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    A baker with secrets.Witches in trouble.The cameras are rolling.On your marks, get set, die.Poppy Wilkinson is thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on The Great British Baking Contest. As an American with English roots, winning the crown as Britain’s Best Baker would open doors she’s dreamed of. In more ways than one. Appearing on the reality show is her chance to get into Broomewode Hall and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Bundt Instrument

    A Paranormal Culinary Cozy Mystery

    by Nancy Warren ...
    Narrated by Hollis McCarthy ...
    Audiobook 4 - The Great Witches Baking Show

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    A cozy English village, a baking contest...and murder!I can remember a time when I baked for fun. I loved dreaming up new recipes, trying different combinations of flavors. Sharing my creations with friends and family.Now? I have nightmares where the TV cameras are on me and I’m baking naked. Or I open my oven and my cake pans are empty. You don’t need to be Freud to figure out I’m freaking out. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Fran Lebowitz Reader

    by Fran Lebowitz ...
    Narrated by Fran Lebowitz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Buried Book

    The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

    by David Damrosch ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

    by Joseph Pearce ...
    Narrated by Kevin F. Spalding ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 54 min

    Hilaire Belloc is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. At turns reviled or revered, depending on the audience, he was a razor-sharp social commenter and a master of both poetry and prose who continues to captivate readers. In Old Thunder, Joseph Pearce examines Belloc's enduring impact on British intellectual life.Along the way, Pearce uncovers Belloc's relationships with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Still No Word from You

    Notes in the Margin

    by Peter Orner ...
    Narrated by Chris Abernathy ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of the New York Times wrote, "You know from the second you pick him up that he's the real deal," comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Havana Nocturne

    How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution

    by T. J. English ...
    Narrated by Mel Foster ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it: the Cuban Revolution. Bringing together long-buried historical information and English's own research in Havana-including ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Iliad

    Penguin Classics

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Steve John Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich*, Bomber's Moon* and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an introduction by E V Rieu.One of the foremost ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Origins of The Wheel of Time

    The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

    by Michael Livingston, Harriet McDougal ...
    Narrated by Michael Livingston, Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer ...
    series Wheel of Time

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    **This program includes a bonus interview with Rosamund Pike.“Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® series**Explore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:**—An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World—The long-awaited backstory of NakomiTake a deep dive into the real-world history and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sister Outsider

    Essays and Speeches

    by Audre Lorde ...
    Narrated by Robin Eller ...
    Audiobook 1 - Crossing Press Feminist

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Citizen

    An American Lyric

    by Claudia Rankine ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)

    by Jane Austen ...
    Narrated by Karen Savage, Elizabeth Klett ...

    Unabridged

    69 hours 30 min

    This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at Chapter 266) - Northanger Abbey (starts at Chapter 292) - ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    A Carnival of Snackery

    Diaries (2003-2020)

    by David Sedaris ...
    Narrated by David Sedaris, Tracey Ullman ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 8 min

    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFinalist for the Audie Award in HumorThere’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.**If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

    An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    Narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn ...

    Abridged

    21 hours 53 min

    “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD