Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Literary History & Criticism

Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining audiobook looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, examining their dramatic effects on literature itself.

In this witty, fact-packed A-Z, Newman takes the listener on a whirlwind tour from caring, sharing vampire bats to intelligent slime mould; from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman; from the invisibility cloak of the Hawaiian bobtail squid to Francis "DNA" Crick's belief that life on Earth began with alien spaceships.

何かと話題の『アンネの日記』、『コーラン』『種の起源』、ケインズ、フリードマンの経済書まで。 『聖書』の基礎を知ることで見えてくる歴史の流れとは？

Christos Tsiolkas spent a year of 'discovery and rediscovery' reading Patrick White. In this passionate and original book, he shows how the Nobel Prize winner's work still speaks to us. In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.

De entre todos los grandes autores de la literatura universal, ninguno profundizó en los misterios del amor ni ha tratado el asunto del corazón desde una perspectiva tan lúcida como William Shakespeare. Todavía hoy, sus obras y poemas son una herramienta poderosa para comprender los insondables secretos de nuestro corazón.

Desde tiempos inmemoriales, el ser humano ha proyectado sus fantasías en el norte, convirtiendolo ora en una gelida tierra de nadie repleta de peligrosos vikingos, ora en el escenario de un modo de vida más puro en el seno de la naturaleza virgen. Bernd Brunner analiza los relatos históricos de viajeros sobre los gelidos y sobrecogedores paisajes nórdicos, el severo clima, los exóticos tesoros y el encuentro con los pueblos indígenas, así como las sagas literarias que parecían ofrecer un relato fundacional alternativo a la pagana Antigüedad clásica y la moralista tradición cristiana.

The Divergent series is delighting the world with its epic of Tris and Four struggling through revolutions to create a better world. But there are deeper meanings and symbols beneath the surface. Why is it fitting that teens numbered three and four should remake the world? How many Biblical references appear? Why are ravens and crows such popular symbols? And what themes and images does this series share with The Hunger Games and all the other dystopias, past and present?

鬼才・古川日出男が、多大な影響を受けたノーベル賞作家、ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケス（1928-2014）に捧げたオマージュといっていい極上の短篇作品。 〈あなたは、私が誰なのかを当てられますか？〉“ガブリエラ・ガルシア＝マルケス”を名乗り、かのガブリエルとの関係も示唆する女が、読者を挑発するように問いかけて、作品は幕を開ける。古川当人と思しき日本人作家を自在に操り、ガルシア＝マルケスの短篇を奔放に読み解いて「読書の染み」を集め、物語を編むという謎めいた美女（多分）とはいったい「誰」なのか？　物語の生まれる現場としての「家」に着目しつつ、ガブリエル・ガルシア＝マルケスをまるごと呑み込まんとするかのような、情熱と愛に満ちた奇譚。こんな短篇見たことな い！

When Robert Howard is assigned James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in his Catholic high school, his teacher, a Jesuit priest, announces, "Other people may read about it, but you are LIVING it!" As promised, the young Howard, growing up in 1970s Detroit, feels an intense identification with the protagonist of Joyce's first novel, Stephen Dedalus.

Antonio Fagundes é um dos artistas mais queridos do brasil. Este é o seu primeiro audiolivro. Leitor voraz, ele sempre falou com naturalidade sobre livros e a experiência de leitura. Não por acaso, muita gente vem pedir a ele sugestões de títulos e autores. A partir dessas experiências nasceu a ideia para este audiolivro: uma reunião de histórias pessoais e recomendações de leituras, em diversos gêneros.

What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed scholar and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds were planted by the British moral philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians gained from them a theory of human nature, a belief in the innateness of benevolent moral instincts; sentiment, in turn, emerged as a set of shared moral feelings in opposition to both scientific realism and the more ego-driven energies of Romanticism.

Duemila anni fa un uomo guardò alla cultura del futuro, e ne anticipò una buona parte in un'opera visionaria e avveniristica: l'uomo era il poeta Lucrezio, l'opera il poema "De rerum natura". Tutte le grandi teorie scientifiche di oggi (l'atomismo fisico-chimico, il materialismo psicologico, l'evoluzionismo biologico) sono esposte e difese nei suoi canti. Tutte le grandi superstizioni umanistiche di ieri (la filosofia non epicurea, la letteratura non realistica, la religione non deista) sono criticate e attaccate nelle sue invettive.

Arthur Black's voice is unmistakable on the radio and on the page. His is the voice of reason, with a generous helping of funny; the voice that scolds us for our universal human quirks, but who says it with the tone and words that make us laugh out loud at ourselves and our neighbors. A Chip Off the Old Black, Black's latest collection of stories, will knock a sense of humor into any reader, boasting nearly 100 tales featuring everything from yarnbombing to Bambi.

Un audiolibro sui libri, una conversazione divertita e divertente, un'appassionata passeggiata lungo duemila anni di storia del libro, attraverso una discussione contemporaneamente erudita e ironica, colta e personale, filosofica e aneddotica. Dalle ragioni per cui una certa epoca genera capolavori al modo in cui funzionano la memoria e la classificazione di una biblioteca, dall'elogio di certe forme di stupidità e leggerezza all'analisi della passione del collezionista.

The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers. Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning 12 spectacular volumes and written over 25 years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing 20th-century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life.

Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literature; the first truly modern writer, the godmother of chick lit. She is also the greatest enigma (next to Shakespeare) in English literature. Soldiers in the First World War sat in the trenches and read her novels for the civilising comforts they provided. Hard-nut literary critics such as F. R. Leavis lauded their austere complexity.

Non solo pigrizia ma anche tristezza, sconforto, inquietudine, indifferenza, noia, e soprattutto depressione. Se nasce come peccato capitale nella visione religiosa, l'accidia diventa malattia psichiatrica nella visione laica e moderna.

El hermano de tío Vez se presenta por sorpresa en casa de Mattie. Si ya de por sí la vida en casa de los Butterfield es algo caótica, con esta visita inesperada lo será todavía más. Cuando el hermano de tío Vez se marcha, les deja un regalo de despedida sorprendente…Nada más y nada menos que un billete de avión para todos para ir a Australia a visitarlos.

Con los billetes que el hermano de tío Vez les regaló, toda la familia de Mattie se va a Australia de visita. Allí verán de muy cerca canguros y también emús. Además, disfrutan de la playa, aunque alguna vez aparezca un tiburón y suene la sirena. ¡Mattie está deseosa de poder contar todo lo vivido a sus amigos del cole!

"Parlare con un sessista è come giocare a scacchi con un piccione". La maggior parte delle volte non siamo noi a scegliere le parole che usiamo: il nostro linguaggio, fatto per lo più di stereotipi, modi di dire e luoghi comuni, deriva da una cultura patriarcale preesistente a noi. In questo audiolibro Lorenzo Gasparrini analizza e studia le forme del linguaggio sessista, da dove hanno tratto origine e come sono cambiate negli anni, e in che modo i femminismi abbiano portato avanti su questo tema le battaglie per la parità.