The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway audiobook.
Genre: drama
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period of social life that ranges from Paris to locatio ... Show More
Apr 30
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw audiobook. Genre: biography A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw tells the extraordinary ... Show More
1h 24m
Jul 2010
World Book Club: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Part stunning literary thriller, part gothic novel, the book The Shadow of the Wind is a page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. It is a potent mix of a coming-of-age novel and a tragic love story set in Barcelona's po ... Show More
52m 59s
Jun 2023
518 The Curse of the Marquis de Sade - A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History (with Joel Warner) | My Last Book with Diane Rayor
Not even imprisonment could stop the Marquis de Sade from writing his insanely intense, unrelenting erotica - and not even Sade's eventual death could stop his secret manuscript, temporarily hidden in a Bastille wall to protect it from looters and revolutionaries, from haunting i ... Show More
41m 54s
Mar 2023
497 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
By any measure, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War has had an astonishing literary history, proving itself over two and a half millennia to be one of the world's most essential and enduring books. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and legacy of thi ... Show More
55m 23s
May 2023
514 Southern Gothic (with David van den Berg) | My Last Book with Jason Feifer
In the aftermath of a Civil War loss that shattered the region and exposed the moral and cultural fault lines in the populace, writers in the American South responded with stories filled with grotesque, macabre, and shockingly violent elements, developing a genre that came to be ... Show More
1h 7m
Oct 2021
Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen
<p>Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Crossroads,” has generated a lot of discussion, as his work tends to do. The novelist and critic Thomas Mallon, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/jonathan-franzen-crossroads.html" target="_blank">reviewed “Crossroads”</ ... Show More
59m 32s