Women Authors in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

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Devotion

by Patti Smith ...

Narrated by Patti Smith ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Why I Write Series
Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed ... Read more

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From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed
... Read more
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Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!

Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time

by Stephen Rebello ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much ... Read more

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Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much
... Read more
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Cuestiones candentes

Una mirada crítica a la realidad actual, desde el feminismo hasta el cambio climático

by Margaret Atwood ...

Narrated by Marta Moreno, Angi Sansón, Carme Calvell, Elvira García, Juan Miguel Díez, Luis Grau, Olivia Vives, Rosa Guillén, Isa Puchol, Cristina Serra Moles ...

Unabridged

19 hours 59 min

Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática.La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones ... Read more

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Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática.La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones
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Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Narrated by Robin Desser, Francesca Choy-Kee ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 11 min

The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home. ... Read more

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The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.
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Subversive

Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers

by Crystal Downing ...

Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

Known for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke about faith and culture in revolutionary ways as she addressed the evergreen question of to what extent faith ... Read more

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Known for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke about faith and culture in revolutionary ways as she addressed the evergreen question of to what extent faith
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Retour à Yvetot

by Annie Ernaux ...

Narrated by Annie Ernaux, Dominique Blanc ...

Abridged

1 hour 30 min

« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les ... Read more

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« Les livres ont donc constitué très tôt le territoire de mon imaginaire, de ma projection dans des histoires et des mondes que je ne connaissais pas. Plus tard, j’y ai trouvé le mode d’emploi de la vie, un mode d’emploi auquel j’accordais beaucoup plus de confiance qu’au discours scolaire ou au discours de mes parents. J’étais encline à penser que la réalité et la vérité se trouvaient dans les
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles

Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin, Xe Sands ...

Unabridged

5 hours 8 min

In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively . . . loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the ... Read more

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In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively . . . loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the
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In Other Worlds

SF and the Human Imagination

by Margaret Atwood ...

Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Susan Denaker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, ... Read more

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At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong,
... Read more
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Chasing Bright Medusas

A Life of Willa Cather

by Benjamin Taylor ...

Narrated by Benjamin Taylor ...

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min

**“Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready to explore Cather’s life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard years of effort that went into crystallizing it.” —The Washington PostA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as ... Read more

$15.00 USD

**“Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready to explore Cather’s life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard years of effort that went into crystallizing it.” —The Washington PostA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as
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My Life in Middlemarch

by Rebecca Mead ...

Narrated by Kate Reading ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth—Middlemarch—and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining ... Read more

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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth—Middlemarch—and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining
... Read more
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The Heroine’s Bookshelf

Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder

by Erin Blakemore ...

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

Unabridged

4 hours 44 min

The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today’s women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett O’Hara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions. ... Read more

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The literary canon is filled with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines, and legendary female authors. Like today’s women, they too placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family. When their backs were against the wall, characters like Scarlett O’Hara, Jo March, Jane Eyre, and Elizabeth Bennet fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions.
... Read more
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Jane Austen

A Very Short Introduction

by Tom Keymer ...

Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

Unabridged

4 hours 28 min

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished, Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends. Yet Austen ... Read more

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Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished, Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends. Yet Austen
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Transforming Harry

The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age

Narrated by Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane ...

Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of ... Read more

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Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of
... Read more
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Square Haunting

Five Writers in London Between the Wars

by Francesca Wade ...

Narrated by Corrie James ...

Unabridged

13 hours 9 min

Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative ... Read more

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Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative
... Read more
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A Dead White

An Argument Against White Paint

by Wendy S Walters ...

Narrated by Wendy S Walters ...

Unabridged

7 hours 22 min

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our valuesIt’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our valuesIt’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than
... Read more
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Doris Lessing

A Biography

by Carole Klein, Cedar House Audio ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

11 hours

Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished ... Read more

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Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished
... Read more
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Starry and Restless

Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

by Julia Cooke ...

Narrated by Andi Arndt ...

Unabridged

13 hours 44 min

"Andi Arndt’s performance fleshes out each woman’s biography clearly and respectfully, often adding a wry tone." — KirkusThe riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off ... Read more

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"Andi Arndt’s performance fleshes out each woman’s biography clearly and respectfully, often adding a wry tone." — KirkusThe riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off
... Read more
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Una habitación propia

by Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Lucía Morales ...

Unabridged

4 hours 20 min

A partir de unas conferencias dictadas en Newnham College y Girton College, en 1928, la gran escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf compone este ensayo donde reflexiona sobre aspectos de género y la manera en que las estructuras socioculturales impuestas a las mujeres ha incidido en la incursión de las escritoras en la literatura. Un clásico de la literatura inglesa y universal, de los estudios de ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A partir de unas conferencias dictadas en Newnham College y Girton College, en 1928, la gran escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf compone este ensayo donde reflexiona sobre aspectos de género y la manera en que las estructuras socioculturales impuestas a las mujeres ha incidido en la incursión de las escritoras en la literatura. Un clásico de la literatura inglesa y universal, de los estudios de
... Read more
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The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou

by Linda Wagner-Martin ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights ... Read more

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A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights
... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then

by Jamaica Kincaid ...

Narrated by Ian Frazier ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 24 min

The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days). ... Read more

$4.87 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The author of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother delves into her long-awaited new novel about a complicated modern family, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles and Persephone, who live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont. Kincaid discusses her novel with her old friend Ian Frazier (The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days).
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The Secret of Chanel No. 5

The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume

by Tilar J. Mazzeo ...

Narrated by Liz de Nesnera ...

Unabridged

7 hours 59 min

“Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” —Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the BirkinTilar J. Mazzeo, author of the New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot (an Amazon Best of the Month book in October 2008) returns with a captivating history of the world’s most famous, seductive, and popular perfume: Chanel No. 5. Mazzeo’s sweeping story of the iconic scent (known as ... Read more

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“Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” —Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the BirkinTilar J. Mazzeo, author of the New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot (an Amazon Best of the Month book in October 2008) returns with a captivating history of the world’s most famous, seductive, and popular perfume: Chanel No. 5. Mazzeo’s sweeping story of the iconic scent (known as
... Read more
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Love Unknown

The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

by Thomas Travisano ...

Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

Unabridged

15 hours 37 min

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems ... Read more

$25.00 USD

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems
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The Woman Beyond the Attic

The V.C. Andrews Story

by Andrew Neiderman ...

Narrated by Andi Arndt, Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Award–nominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more.Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a ... Read more

$25.99 USD

“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Award–nominated celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more.Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a
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Mantel Pieces

Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

by Hilary Mantel ...

Narrated by Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty ... Read more

$27.99 USD

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty
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