Showing results for "Beloved" in Literary History & Criticism

While our beloved book heroines and heroes embark on life changing journeys, we find mind-bending, heart-breaking adventures and meaning between the pages. Join us as we sit down with literary experts and passionate superfans to explore the authors who’ve shaped lives, sparked obsessions, and left lasting legacies. Each episode dives into the life, work, and impact of a different writer, uncovering personal stories from the people who love them most and know them best Ernesta & Steve

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre” (The New York Times) “In this lavish yet clear-eyed study, Serpell shows how Morrison breathed new life...

In The World According to Narnia, Jonathan Rogers takes you further into the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis, helping you to view our world in the way that Narnia invites you to view it. Rogers shows how the storylines and characters from Narnia sing with biblical truth.

Scotland's beloved storyteller, George MacDonald, 19th-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to 20th century Christians by C. S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald's Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G. K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, "If we test the matter of originality of attitude, George MacDonald was one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century."

[Contains explicit content] In this a 2017 show, Susie introduces four new editions of Charles Bukowski’s short fiction and memoirs to Audible. The patron saint of barflies and brawlers with tender souls wrote prolifically; each sentence a gem.