Literary Criticism

Collected Prose

by James Elroy Flecker Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic p…

Must Not Sleep

by Michael Brownstein Read by Michael Brownstein 3
By turns hilarious and chilling, poet and novelist Michael Brownstein's latest novel MUST NOT SLEEP is a shamanic initiation into personal f…

The Quintessence of Ibsenism

by George Bernard Shaw Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…

The Innerglow Effect

by Craig Robertson Read by Craig Robertson 4.1
Drug companies continue to come out with powerful new medicines. Some produce wondrous responses while others have unforeseen side effects.…

The Origins of Christianity

by Thomas Whittaker Read by Joseph R. Daniels 3.3
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…

Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo

by Gabriel García Márquez Read by Alba 4.6
El invierno se precipitó un domingo a la salida de misa. La noche del sábado había sido sofocante. Pero aún en l…

L'Art de Lire

by Emile Faguet Read by Christiane Jehanne 4.2
Un ouvrage passionnant sur la Littérature, comment lire et aborder différents textes, romans, philosophiques, poétiques…

El fin

by Jorge Luis Borges Read by Alba 4.2
Recabarren, tendido, entreabrió los ojos y vio el oblicuo cielo raso de junco. De la otra pieza le llegaba un rasgueo de guitarra, un…

Ladrón de sábado

by Gabriel García Márquez Read by Alba 4.6
Hugo, un ladrón que sólo roba los fines de semana, entra en una casa un sábado por la noche. Ana, la dueña, una …

Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas

by Richard Stephenson Read by Richard Stephenson 5
Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…

Gossip in a Library

by Edmund Gosse Read by Eugene Smith 3
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…

The Scars

by William Tennant Read by William Tennant 4
Peter Everett is a man stained with grief, his life becomes a struggle of decisions as he watches the lives of the people around him dissolv…

An Essay on Criticism

by Alexander Pope Read by cwanki 2
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…

The Spirit of Brazilian Literature

by Isaac Goldberg Read by KevinS 5
One of the many Little Blue Books published to make learning available to all. These were short, informative, and inexpensive books that dis…

Essays on Modern Novelists

by William Lyon Phelps Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…

Siddharta

by Hermann Hesse Read by gregoriosamsa 4.3
Una obra maestra de la literatura... un libro que no importa cuántas veces lo leas, siempre encontrarás cosas nuevas que apren…

The Sins of the Fathers

by William Tennant Read by William Tennant 3.2
This is a story about life. This is a story about light. This is a story of how some men are the product of their lives, and some are the pr…

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun

by Mark L Berry Read by Mark L Berry 3.4
When Oso gets yanked off his motorcycle and killed by a closed parking lot chain, Billy feels guilty for having taught him to hop curbs and …

Infamy

by Squid Varilekova Read by Squid Varilekova
Infamy is a difficult thing to live with. It removes privacy, infects every aspect of daily life, and even causes the people it encounters c…

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

by Eugene Field Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.7
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…

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