Showing results by publisher "Recorded Books" in Literary History & Criticism
-
-
These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- By: Martha Ackmann
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready" - and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent toward publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson's life through 10 decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet.
-
These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $28.00 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $28.00 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Camus at Combat
- Writing 1944-1947
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom’s barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men’s blood. Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best known for his novels including The Stranger and The Plague, it was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and his passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public fame.
-
Camus at Combat
- Writing 1944-1947
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Age of Shakespeare [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Frank Kermode
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare?s works.
-
The Age of Shakespeare [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2005
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $22.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $22.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Dante
- By: John Took
- Narrated by: John Took
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beginning with the often violent circumstances of Dante's life, the book examines his successive works as testimony to the course of his passionate humanity: his lyric poetry through to the Vita nova as the great work of his first period; the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia and the poems of his early years in exile; and the Monarchia and the Commedia as the product of his maturity.
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
- By: H. P. Wood
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Kitty Hayward and her mother are ready to experience the spectacles of Coney Island's newest attraction, the Dreamland amusement park. But when Kitty's mother vanishes from their hotel, Kittty finds herself penniless, alone, and far from her native England. The last people she expects to help are the cast of characters at Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet, a museum of oddities. From con men to strongmen, from flea wranglers to lion tamers, Kitty's new friends quickly adopt her and vow to help find the missing Mrs. Hayward.
-
Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-06-2016
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $36.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $36.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jane Smiley has long been acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Less known is her nonfiction, her steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Her approach is both enthusiastic and meticulous, always quick to dive beneath surface-level interpretations of authors and their work. This volume of nonfiction begins with a personal introduction that traces Smiley’s migration from Missouri to California a quarter-century ago.
-
The Questions That Matter Most
- Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
- Narrated by: Jane Smiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2023
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $23.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $23.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
- By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. This new translation includes The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Princess Brambilla, Master Flea, and My Cousin's Corner Window.
-
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2014
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $44.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $44.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Life on the Mississippi
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away in pursuit of his dream. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit.
-
Life on the Mississippi
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-07-1999
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Curiosity
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tracing 25 centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the present day, Manguel dedicates each of his chapters to a single character - ranging from our best-known thinkers, scientists, and artists to seemingly minor figures of whom we know little more than one inspired utterance - in whom he identifies a particular way of asking the question "why?"
-
Curiosity
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2015
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Yestermorrow
- Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Visionary writings from the protean Bradbury, America's preeminent master of the fantastic who has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. Part memoir, part commentary, these writings are an exploration and celebration of ideas. Bradbury reflects on art, literature, history, architecture, science fiction, and the people who have influenced him.
-
Yestermorrow
- Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2018
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $23.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $23.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes
- By: Janice M. Allan - editor, Christopher Pittard - editor
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre, John Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of Victorian anxieties and preoccupations, while on the other shaping popular conceptions of criminality, deviance, and the powers of the detective.
-
The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre, John Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-11-2019
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The True Tails of Baker and Taylor
- The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World
- By: Jan Louch, Lisa Rogak
- Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines' mild temperaments - and because she dealt with the book distribution company on a daily basis.
-
The True Tails of Baker and Taylor
- The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World
- Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2016
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $24.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $24.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Transported back in time to the regal days of chivalry, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued Connecticut Yankee introduces the legendary King Arthur and his court to some "magic" even the wizard Merlin never dreamed of: the destructive power of gunpowder, and the ability to eclipse the sun itself!
-
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2001
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $33.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Los Que Falsificaron La Firma De Dios [They Forged the Signature of God]
- By: Viriato Sencion, Asa Zatz - translator
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
They Forged the Signature of God is an enthralling fictionalized account of the recent and tumultuous history of the Dominican Republic. The story follows three seminary students trying to divine their proper paths in life amid a social climate marked by political repression and instability. Virato Sencion delivers an exacting take on his country's recent political history, and his book has become a best seller in Latin America.
-
Los Que Falsificaron La Firma De Dios [They Forged the Signature of God]
- Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2004
- Language: Spanish
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $59.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $59.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
What Fire Cannot Burn
- By: John Ridley
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
John Ridley is an acclaimed screenwriter and best-selling author. His first novel featuring LAPD mutant hunter Soledad O'Roark, Those Who Walk in Darkness, was an instant hit. Soledad's second adventure finds her hunting down a vigilante who is murdering metanormals indiscriminantly. She has no love for the mutants, but no one is above the law. So with her modified sidearm at her hip, she hits the pavement, determined to dish out some street justice.
-
What Fire Cannot Burn
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Series: Those Who Walk in Darkness, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2008
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Moose Tracks
- By: Mary Casanova
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There is nothing Seth enjoys more than riding his horse, Quest, through the frozen wilderness of northern Minnesota. But Seth’s father, a game warden, warns that danger may be nearby. Someone is breaking the law by hunting black bear and moose for profit. While following animal tracks deep into the woods, Seth and Quest discover a moose cow and her calf. Suddenly, gunshots ring out! The calf is wounded and its mother killed. Seth and the poachers he was warned about have just come face-to-face.
-
Moose Tracks
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2012
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $12.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $12.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Memoranda During the War
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Robert Gorman
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"The real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in this diary he kept during the Civil War. Whitman chronicled his visits to Washington, D.C. hospitals where he comforted wounded men and assisted nurses and doctors. This journal, written by one of America's greatest poets and writers, captures the details and ironies of war.
-
Memoranda During the War
- Narrated by: Robert Gorman
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2007
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $17.00 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $17.00 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Language of the Night is Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays and criticism, with sections on her own background, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literate science fiction. Each section is introduced with commentary by Susan Wood and the book contains a complete bibliography of Le Guin’s work (at the time of publication).
-
The Language of the Night
- Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2024
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $39.00 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $39.00 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
Glad to the Brink of Fear
- A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: James Marcus
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces listeners to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness.
-
Glad to the Brink of Fear
- A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2024
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $31.99 or 1 Credit
-
-
-
The House Where My Soul Lives
- The Life of Margaret Walker
- By: Maryemma Graham
- Narrated by: Kelechi Ezie
- Length: 33 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This first complete biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She was an artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief architect of what many have called the new Black South Renaissance.
-
The House Where My Soul Lives
- The Life of Margaret Walker
- Narrated by: Kelechi Ezie
- Length: 33 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2023
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Non-member price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
Sale price: $46.99 or 1 Credit
-