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

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Jane Austen at Home

A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)

by Lucy Worsley ...

Narrated by Lucy Worsley ...

Unabridged

17 hours 17 min

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley*'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I devoured this. Jane's story is told in vivid prose and a compassionate manner.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*-------------Where better to celebrate ... Read more

$31.99 USD

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley*'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I devoured this. Jane's story is told in vivid prose and a compassionate manner.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*-------------Where better to celebrate
... Read more
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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

$14.99 USD

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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In Our Time: 25 Classic Novels

A BBC Radio 4 Collection

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Melvyn Bragg ...

Series series In Our Time
Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements'One of Radio 4's quiet jewels in its crown' The GuardianIn 1998, a brand new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have shaped our world. In Our Time rapidly became one of radio's most well ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements'One of Radio 4's quiet jewels in its crown' The GuardianIn 1998, a brand new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have shaped our world. In Our Time rapidly became one of radio's most well
... 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

$19.99 USD

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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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

$28.99 USD

"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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This Dark Night

Emily Brontë, A Life

by Deborah Lutz ...

Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë—an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë—an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy provoked by her early death and the loss (and
... 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

$12.99 USD

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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Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz

by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ...

Narrated by José Peña Coto ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

“Yo no estudio para escribir, ni menos para enseñar, sino sólo por ver si con estudiar ignoro menos.” Sor Juana Inés de la CruzALEGATO POR LA LIBERTAD Y LA IGUALDAD INTELECTUAL DE LAS MUJERES.Publicada en 1701, esta carta constituye un documento fundamental para entender la defensa del derecho de las mujeres a la educación y al conocimiento en un tiempo en que estas aspiraciones eran ... Read more

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“Yo no estudio para escribir, ni menos para enseñar, sino sólo por ver si con estudiar ignoro menos.” Sor Juana Inés de la CruzALEGATO POR LA LIBERTAD Y LA IGUALDAD INTELECTUAL DE LAS MUJERES.Publicada en 1701, esta carta constituye un documento fundamental para entender la defensa del derecho de las mujeres a la educación y al conocimiento en un tiempo en que estas aspiraciones eran
... Read more
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The Brontës

The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Authors

by Liam Dale ...

Narrated by Liam Dale ...

Series series The History Journals
Unabridged

43 min

Interested in delving into the lives of the Brontë Sisters but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of their extraordinary lives.The Brontë Sisters stand tall as one of literature's most illustrious families. Their timeless classics, including "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," continue to define English Literature. These novels grace ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Interested in delving into the lives of the Brontë Sisters but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join The History Journals for an hourly history tour of their extraordinary lives.The Brontë Sisters stand tall as one of literature's most illustrious families. Their timeless classics, including "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights," continue to define English Literature. These novels grace
... Read more
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

by Jane Harrington ...

Narrated by Hope Newhouse ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories.In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, coined the term ‘fairy tale,’ and some ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories.In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, coined the term ‘fairy tale,’ and some
... Read more
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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

$25.99 USD

“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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The Alice Behind Wonderland

by Simon Winchester ...

Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

Unabridged

2 hours 43 min

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless ... Read more

$17.99 USD

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless
... Read more
Audiobook

A Dead White

An Argument Against White Paint

by Wendy S Walters ...

Narrated by Wendy S Walters ...

Unabridged

7 hours

An 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 white paint. As the default color of our built ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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An 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 white paint. As the default color of our built
... 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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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

$22.99 USD 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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Juste une question de temps

Une histoire d'amour à la Jane Austen, sur fond de Chopin, de comédie absurde et de philosophie.

Narrated by Sarah Barzyk ...

Unabridged

4 hours 28 min

Sarah, une jeune femme candide et rêveuse s'installe avec son mari à Saint-Pétersbourg. Pour échapper à un quotidien en apparence parfait, elle entretient une correspondance avec sa mère restée à Paris, qui supporte tant bien que mal des enfants et un cousin qui lui en font voir de toutes les couleurs. Par hasard, Sarah rencontre un homme qui lui est familier. Destin, ou coup de tonnerre, cette ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sarah, une jeune femme candide et rêveuse s'installe avec son mari à Saint-Pétersbourg. Pour échapper à un quotidien en apparence parfait, elle entretient une correspondance avec sa mère restée à Paris, qui supporte tant bien que mal des enfants et un cousin qui lui en font voir de toutes les couleurs. Par hasard, Sarah rencontre un homme qui lui est familier. Destin, ou coup de tonnerre, cette
... 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

$7.99 USD

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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La palabra mágica

Una vida escrita

by Isabel Allende ...

Narrated by Isabel Allende, Javiera Gazitua ...

Unabridged

4 hours 22 min

Un libro lleno de vida sobre el oficio de escribir, la magia de la creación y el poder eterno de las palabras.La palabra mágica es mucho más que una guía de escritura, es una conversación. Isabel Allende comparte los triunfos, errores y aprendizajes que los desafíos y las alegrías le han brindado a lo largo de los años. A partir de sus propias vivencias, este libro es una clase magistral para todo ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Un libro lleno de vida sobre el oficio de escribir, la magia de la creación y el poder eterno de las palabras.La palabra mágica es mucho más que una guía de escritura, es una conversación. Isabel Allende comparte los triunfos, errores y aprendizajes que los desafíos y las alegrías le han brindado a lo largo de los años. A partir de sus propias vivencias, este libro es una clase magistral para todo
... 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

$4.99 USD 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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Monster, She Wrote

The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.**Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.**Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror
... Read more
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The Glory and the Dream

L.M. Montgomery's Writing Life

by Benjamin Lefebvre ...

Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

Unabridged

7 hours 50 min

New revelations and insights about the writing life of the internationally renowned author of Anne of Green Gables**.**L. M. Montgomery is known around the globe for the many books she published during her career, beginning with Anne of Green Gables. But what is far less known are the circumstances under which she wrote and the challenges she faced as a bestselling author.Montgomery scholar ... Read more

$20.99 USD

New revelations and insights about the writing life of the internationally renowned author of Anne of Green Gables**.**L. M. Montgomery is known around the globe for the many books she published during her career, beginning with Anne of Green Gables. But what is far less known are the circumstances under which she wrote and the challenges she faced as a bestselling author.Montgomery scholar
... Read more
Audiobook

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

$20.99 USD

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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Essential Anais Nin

Excerpts from her Diary and Comments

by Anais Nin ...

Narrated by Anais Nin ...

Abridged

45 min

From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an extraordinary, historic, archival, and memorable ... Read more

$8.99 USD

From her famous diaries, that she began in 1914 at the age of eleven, Anais Nin reads passages which reflect the recurring themes of her work. In a slow, clear, heavily accented, hypnotic voice, Nin draws the listener into her spell–binding stories of a highly personal world as she paints a vivid picture of a woman as artist and self. This is an extraordinary, historic, archival, and memorable
... 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

$15.99 USD

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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