The World Literature category has 530 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 7,472 ratings. The most-rated is Indian Horse.
The Witness of Poetry
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Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe", a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with specific memory yet never hermetic or provincial. Milosz addresses many of the major problems of contemporary poetry, beginning with the pessimism and negativism prompted by reductionist interpretations of man's animal origins. He examines the tendency of poets since Mallarmé to isolate themselves from society, and stresses the need for the poet to make himself part of the great human family. One chapter is devoted to the tension between classicism and realism; Milosz believes poetry should be "a passionate pursuit of the real". In "Ruins and Poetry" he looks at poems constructed from the wreckage of a civilization, specifically that of Poland after the horrors of World War II. Finally, he expresses optimism for the world, based on a hoped-for better understanding of the lessons of modern science, on the emerging recognition of humanity's oneness, and on mankind's growing awareness of its own history.
©1983 Czeslaw Milosz (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
Central Station
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Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017. A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap in to the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv, a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation - a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness - are just the beginning of irrevocable change. At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve.
©2016 Lavie Tidhar (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Loathe at First Sight
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“Bursts with humor, heart, and great energy. I loved it! Park is a hilarious new voice in women’s fiction.” (Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient) “[A] punchy adult debut set in the world of video game design. Park makes tough topics go down easy by couching them in wry humor and lighthearted romance, and her fierce, snarky heroine is irresistible. This smart rom-com is a winner.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) In a debut perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Sally Thorne, a junior video game producer finds herself getting closer and closer to the one person she hates most after a mass troll attack online almost ruins her life. Melody Joo is thrilled to land her dream job as a video game producer, but her new position comes with challenges: an insufferable CEO; sexist male coworkers; and an infuriating - yet distractingly handsome - intern Nolan McKenzie, aka “the guy who got hired because his uncle is the boss”. Just when Melody thinks she’s made the worst career move of her life, her luck changes. While joking with a friend, she creates a mobile game that has male strippers fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world. Suddenly Melody’s “joke” is her studio’s most high-profile project - and Melody’s running the show. When Nolan is assigned to Melody’s team, she’s sure he’ll be useless. But as they grow closer, she realizes he’s smart and sexy, which makes Melody want to forget he’s her intern. As their attraction deepens, she knows it’s time to pump the brakes, even with her Korean parents breathing down her neck to hurry up and find a man. With her project about to launch, Melody suddenly faces a slew of complications, including a devastating trolling scandal. Could the man she’s falling hard for help her play the game to win - in work and in love?
©2020 Suzanne Park (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
French Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn French & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
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Finding material for your French immersion can be a nightmare, but not anymore! French students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper material that isn’t too tough for them - as teachers; we know this. This is why we’ve created French Short Stories for Beginners to ensure that young and old students at the beginner level can have yet another chance to immerse themselves into fun and interactive stories designer for you, the student. Twenty easy-to-listen, entertaining, and interesting stories await inside, along with the best tools to help you practice once you’re done reading each tale. Our audiobook will ensure you not only can listen to something that will expand your knowledge on French but that you will understand and be able to pick it apart piece by piece in your quest for learning. How French Short Stories for Beginners works: Each story is designed to keep you engaged an interested as well as using vocabulary that you will actually use. The summaries follow a synopsis in French and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in French, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any - we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating! Do you think you can handle it? If the answer is yes, then you’re definitely on your way to becoming a French speaker, and we’ll certainly make that dream come true! We recommend this audiobook for French learners at A2 level and above as it is designed for students with a basic understanding of French. So look no further! Pick up your copy of French Short Stories for Beginners Vol. 2 and start learning French right now! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Lingo Mastery (P)2019 Lingo Mastery
Finkler Question
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Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2010 The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best. Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into question.
©2010 Howard Jacobson (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Learn French with Short Stories - The Adventures of Clara
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Feeling like your French isn't progressing as fast as you'd like? Not understanding idioms or cultural references? Wanting to learn real-life vocab you can use straight away? This audiobook is packed full of helpful techniques, tips, and hacks in an easy-to-listen-to format. Follow Clara through her adventures in France living like a local, learning useful everyday topics that you can start implementing into your everyday speech! Here is what you’ll learn: French cultural references Diverse range of vocabulary Idioms you don't learn in textbooks How different tenses are used Pronunciation Don't wait any longer! Fulfill that life long dream of learning French, scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to begin the journey to becoming a little bit more French. Please note: This audiobook is in French.
©2018 French Hacking (P)2018 French Hacking
The Joy of Doing Just Enough
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For anyone who’s ever heard a motivational speech and immediately vomited, a guide to ignoring society’s obsession with success Sit around, leave sh*t all over the place, drink, forget about deadlines...being lazy is pretty easy. But the real art to being chill is when someone without any real ambition can fly under the radar and live unscathed by the never-ending reams of self-help and inspiration rained upon anyone who just wants to watch Netflix. Find that magical place where doing what comes naturally keeps the do-ers at arm's length. Rather than doing less, do just enough. Screw TED Talks, Instagram images of a beach with fail better in gold cursive, marathon training, tips for keeping plants alive, and all self-aggrandizing social media. Ninety-nine percent of people on this planet are just pretty average. We're doing our thing. Trying to get out of bed in the morning. Hey, are you awake right now? Reading a sentence? You know what? That's success in my book. Being a person is hard enough without all the pressure of being good at it.
©2018 Jennifer McCartney (P)2018 Dreamscape Media, LLC
The Middlesteins
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For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food - thinking about it, eating it - and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle - a whippet thin perfectionist - is intent on saving her mother-in-law's life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie's devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone? Or are others at fault, too? With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.
©2012 Jami Attenberg (P)2012 Hachette Audio
Die ewige Seligkeit
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Eine herrliche Geschichte über jüdisches Alltagsleben und eine merkwürdige Reise. Swohil, Osteuropa, im 19. Jahrhundert: Der junge Rep Schepsel macht sich auf den Weg, um seine Papiere in Ordnung zu bringen. Doch aus seinem, auf den ersten Blick, harmlosen Unternehmen, wird eine abenteuerliche Reise. Schließlich fasst Rep einen Entschluss: Er möchte die ewige Seligkeit erwerben. Doch das ist gar nicht so einfach, wie zunächst angenommen. Scholem Alejchem (1859-1916) war einer der bedeutendsten jiddischsprachigen Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der Mitbegründer der jiddischen Literatur. Er wurde oft auch der jüdische Mark Twain genannt. Alejchem schrieb etliche Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenbeiträge, Erzählungen, Romane, Bühnenstücke und Skripte für Stummfilme. Eines seiner bekanntesten Werke ist "Tewje, der Milchmann", aus dem sich in den 1960er Jahren das weltweit bekannte Musical "Fiddler on the Roof" entwickelte.
©2019 SAGA Egmont (P)2019 SAGA Egmont
Pulse
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17 year-old Kalina didn t know her boyfriend was a vampire until the night he died of a freak accident. She didn t know he came from a long line of vampires until the night she was visited by his half-brothers Jaegar and Stuart Greystone. There were a lot of secrets her boyfriend didn t tell her. Now she must discover them in order to keep alive. But having two half-brothers vampires around had just gotten interesting.
©2013 Kailin Gow (P)2014 Kailin Gow
Una gran voglia di vivere
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"Svegliarsi una mattina e non sapere più se ami ancora la donna che hai vicino, la donna con cui hai costruito una famiglia, una vita. Non sai come sia potuto accadere. Non è stato un evento, una situazione, un tradimento ad allontanarvi. È successo senza esplosione, in silenzio, lentamente, con piccoli, impercettibili passi. Un giorno, guardando l'uno verso l'altra, vi siete trovati ai lati opposti della stanza. Ed è stato difficile perfino crederci". Quello di Marco e Anna sembrava un amore in grado di mantenere le promesse. Adesso Marco non riesce a ricordare qual è stata la prima sera in cui non hanno acceso la musica, in cui non hanno aperto il vino. La prima in cui per stanchezza non l'ha accarezzata. Quando la complicità si è trasformata in competizione. Forse l'amore, come le fiamme, ha bisogno di ossigeno e sotto una campana si spegne. Forse, semplicemente, è tutto molto complicato. L'audiolibro di Fabio Volo è il racconto di una crisi di coppia e del viaggio, fisico e interiore, per affrontarla. Un romanzo sincero, diretto, che sa fotografare le pieghe e le piccole contraddizioni dei nostri rapporti.
©2019 Mondadori (P)2019 Mondadori
The Eighth Arrow: Wisdom and Storytelling from Tennessee's Tihanama People
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One of the last migratory American Indian tribes, the Tihanama people of Tennessee ranged from the Great Lakes to the Florida Panhandle. Other Southeastern peoples called them the Big Medicine tribe. They were known for their legends, antiquity, trail markings, knowledge of herbs, funeral ceremonies, songs, paints, and dyes. This collection by Donald Panther-Yates is as unique as its subject - there is no other like it. The Eighth Arrow story will completely alter your understanding of Native American spirituality. It may change your life.
©2018 Donald N Yates (P)2021 Donald N Yates
Moon Racer
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Somewhere in the lush grasslands of the Texas hill country, three brothers and a sister fight to hold their family together, struggle to keep their ranch solvent, while they await the return of the one person who can shed light on the secrets of the past. Abby learned to ride and rope and wrangle as well as any of her brothers, but Major Jonah Tremain is looking for a lady. Abby tells herself she doesn't care that the major is engaged to a proper Eastern-bred miss, but when she looks into his searing blue eyes and feels his lips against hers, she decides to teach him the error of his ways...only a Texas wildcat can do justice to passion such as his, and she plans to match him kiss for kiss.
©2003 Constance O'Banyon (P)2014 Audio Realms, all rights reserved. Published by Brilliance Audio.
The Wind Beneath the Wings: Stand by You
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Have you heard the book Stand by You? Well, this book is for you! This audio storybook is a story of hope, faith, and love. The brilliance of the way it is written will help the students in schools to learn to respect one another regardless of color, creed, and religion. Bullying, you are out...and love is in!
©2018 Dr. Napoli Fiatro St. Croix (P)2018 Dr. Napoli Fiatro St. Croix
Animal Farm: CliffsNotes
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This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's Animal Farm supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Animal Farm. Reading a literary work doesn’t mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement you reading to be sure you get all you can from Orwell's Animal Farm. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on George Orwell and Animal Farm, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com.
©2011 CliffsNotes (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
El Vendedor de Suenos - Bodega Dream (Texto Completo)
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El Vendedor de Suenos evoca las tribulaciones de Chino, un joven del Harlem hispano en busca del amor, de reafirmacion de identidad. Su relacion con Bodega, un capo magnanimo, un bandido generoso, lo sumerge en un mundo de intrigas y violencia. In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega Dreams announces the arrival of a writer who The Village Voice has already hailed as "a Writer on the Verge". Lyric, inspired, and darkly funny, this powerful debut novel brilliantly evokes the trial of Chino, a smart, promising young man to whom Bodega turns for a favor.
©2000 Ernesto Quinonez (P)2003 Recorded Books, LLC
Pride and Prejudice: CliffsNotes
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The CliffsNotes study guide on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Pride and Prejudice. Reading a literary work doesn’t mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Austen's Pride and Prejudice. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com.
©2000 Marie Kalil (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
One Step to You
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From an international best-selling author, this modern romance story explores whether distance and separation can ever keep true love apart. Published for the first time in English, One Step to You has captured the hearts of millions and garnered a dedicated fan base across the world. The Romeo and Juliet of their time, Babi and Step spend the best days of their lives together, but belonging to opposite worlds may eventually tear them apart forever. Just as in every other place in the world, teenagers in Rome, Italy, forge their own path separate from their parents. Some are hardworking and studious like Babi, a young girl waiting to find the love of her life. Then there are bad boys like Step, who are from the wrong side of the tracks. The Romeo and Juliet of their time, Babi and Step are from different worlds, want different things, but cannot help falling in love. Although their relationship won't be easy, their love may be the best thing to ever happen to them.
©2021 Federico Moccia and Antony Shugaar (P)2021 Grand Central Publishing
Guide (Hindi Edition)
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R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of “authentic” Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan’s writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi. Narayan’s imaginary small town of Malgudi has often been seen as a metonym for India. Thieme draws on recent thinking about the ways in which place and space are constructed to demonstrate that Malgudi is always a fractured and transitional site, an interface between older conceptions of Indianness and contemporary views that stress the ubiquitousness and inescapability of change in the face of modernity. The study also shows that Malgudi is seen from varying angles of vision and with shifting emphases at different points in Narayan’s career. As well as offering fresh insights into the influences that went into the making of Narayan’s fiction, this is the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide to his novels to have appeared to date. It provides a unique account of his development as a writer. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©2017 R.K. Narayan (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Le Funambule
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En 1955, Jean Genet rencontre Abdallah Bentaga, un jeune acrobate, avec lequel il vit sa plus belle et dramatique histoire d'amour. Il lui dédie Le Funambule, un long poème amoureux, mais aussi une réflexion sur les voies de la création : variations sur une dramaturgie du cirque, du théâtre et de la danse. Dans L'Enfant criminel, dont l'édition originale de 1949 fut censurée, l'auteur raconte son passage après ses premiers larcins dans des maisons de correction de l'assistance publique et dévoile "le mystère de ces bagnes pour enfants".
©2020 Éditions des femmes (P)2020 Éditions des femmes