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

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The Watsons

by Jane Austen ...

Narrated by May Lane ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than ... Read more

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The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it in 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than
... Read more
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Eros the Bittersweet

An Essay

by Anne Carson ...

Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

Unabridged

6 hours 3 min

Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general listeners. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of ... Read more

$25.86 CAD

Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general listeners. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of
... Read more
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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

$28.99 CAD

« 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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A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Frances Butt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 25 min

A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and ... Read more

$9.84 CAD

A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century bookWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. … [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and
... Read more
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces

by Maria Tatar ...

Narrated by Julie McKay ...

Unabridged

12 hours 9 min

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and ... Read more

$30.79 CAD

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and
... Read more
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Tribu de lectoras

by Asociación de lectoras Librosb4tipos ...

Narrated by Adriana Galindo, Gabriela Ramírez, Gaby Torres, Dessirée Hernández, Graciela Gámez, Alma Olguín ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

Ensayos que celebran la memoria y la imaginaciónSi algo tenemos que agradecer a las redes sociales es que han contribuido a reunir a miles de mujeres apasionadas por la lectura. En México destaca la labor de Librosb4tipos, una asociación integrada por once mujeres mexicanas que se dedican apromover la lectura con una mirada genuina, dejando de lado cualquier preten... ... Read more

$27.89 CAD

Ensayos que celebran la memoria y la imaginaciónSi algo tenemos que agradecer a las redes sociales es que han contribuido a reunir a miles de mujeres apasionadas por la lectura. En México destaca la labor de Librosb4tipos, una asociación integrada por once mujeres mexicanas que se dedican apromover la lectura con una mirada genuina, dejando de lado cualquier preten...
... Read more
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Translating Myself and Others

by Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Narrated by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sneha Mathan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a ... Read more

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Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a
... Read more
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime

by Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by Hugh Fraser, Sophie Roberts ...

Unabridged

6 hours 10 min

Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved ... Read more

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Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved
... 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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Cómo las mujeres (también) construyeron el mundo

by Kate Mosse, Kate Mosse ...

Narrated by Angi Sansón ...

Unabridged

17 hours 39 min

Inspirada en la abrumadora respuesta que tuvo la campaña mundial que inició Mosse en las redes sociales bajo el hashtag #WomanInHistory, que se lanzó en 2021, esta importante obra de no ficción recopila, de manera rica y detallada, más de 1.000 voces de mujeres no escuchadas y poco escuchadas. Tambien nos ofrece la siguiente pregunta vital: ¿cómo y por que los logros de las mujeres se han omitido ... Read more

$28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Inspirada en la abrumadora respuesta que tuvo la campaña mundial que inició Mosse en las redes sociales bajo el hashtag #WomanInHistory, que se lanzó en 2021, esta importante obra de no ficción recopila, de manera rica y detallada, más de 1.000 voces de mujeres no escuchadas y poco escuchadas. Tambien nos ofrece la siguiente pregunta vital: ¿cómo y por que los logros de las mujeres se han omitido
... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs

by Claire Messud ...

Narrated by Meghan O'Rourke, Patricia Kalember ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 18 min

The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children discusses her richly drawn new novel with Meghan O'Rourke (The Long Goodbye). Her latest release is a riveting compulsively readable confession of a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass, drawn into the complex world of her new neighbors -- a Lebanese scholar and professor of Ethical ... Read more

$6.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children discusses her richly drawn new novel with Meghan O'Rourke (The Long Goodbye). Her latest release is a riveting compulsively readable confession of a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass, drawn into the complex world of her new neighbors -- a Lebanese scholar and professor of Ethical
... 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

$19.70 CAD

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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Si Fragile

by Fiona Gélin ...

Narrated by Fiona Gélin ...

Unabridged

« Le désespoir, l'alcool, la traversée du désert, j'ai tout connu ! » confie Fiona Gélin, qui revient dans ce récit sur son parcours... et sa résurrection.Elle y évoque les Gélin, dynastie de comédiens, restés si présents en elle. Tout d'abord son père, Daniel, l'acteur charismatique, qui n'a cessé de l'encourager ; sa demi-soeur, Maria Schneider, immortalisée par *Le Dernier Tango à Paris,*film ... Read more

$29.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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« Le désespoir, l'alcool, la traversée du désert, j'ai tout connu ! » confie Fiona Gélin, qui revient dans ce récit sur son parcours... et sa résurrection.Elle y évoque les Gélin, dynastie de comédiens, restés si présents en elle. Tout d'abord son père, Daniel, l'acteur charismatique, qui n'a cessé de l'encourager ; sa demi-soeur, Maria Schneider, immortalisée par *Le Dernier Tango à Paris,*film
... Read more
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Genius and Ink

Virginia Woolf on How to Read

by Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Olivia Dowd ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of ... Read more

$24.29 CAD

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of
... Read more
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Hardy Women

Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

by Paula Byrne ...

Narrated by Dawn Murphy ...

Unabridged

18 hours 38 min

A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all'Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female ... Read more

$31.49 CAD

A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all'Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female
... Read more
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

by Marion Meade, Janet Carroll, the Hollywood Jazz Cats, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...

Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door ... Read more

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This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door
... Read more
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Real Estate

by Deborah Levy ...

Narrated by Juliet Stevenson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 28 min

WINNER of the 2021 Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseFrom one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed "living autobiography" series."I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. ... Read more

$26.10 CAD

WINNER of the 2021 Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseFrom one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed "living autobiography" series."I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives.
... Read more
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Jane Austen

by Carol Shields ...

Narrated by Donada Peters ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. ... Read more

$18.90 CAD

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra.
... Read more
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Camp Austen

My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan

by Ted Scheinman ...

Narrated by Ted Scheinman ...

Unabridged

3 hours 43 min

A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the ... Read more

$19.79 CAD

A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the
... Read more
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Jane on the Brain

Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen

by Wendy Jones ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

16 hours 6 min

Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers?We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories—the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not ... Read more

$36.95 CAD

Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers?We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories—the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not
... Read more
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Sylvia Plath

A Biography

by Linda Wagner-Martin ...

Narrated by Xe Sands ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers. But, like most writers, Plath changed the ... Read more

$24.63 CAD

Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic.Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to readers. But, like most writers, Plath changed the
... Read more
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March Sisters

On Life, Death, and Little Women

by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 9 min

For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel—what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate ... Read more

$16.00 CAD

For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel—what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate
... Read more
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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

$31.49 CAD

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
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What Matters in Jane Austen?

Twenty Essential Questions Answered

by John Mullan ...

Narrated by Charles Armstrong ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong"An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." **—**The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictiona... ... Read more

$18.00 CAD

Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong"An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." **—**The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictiona...
... Read more

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