16 Best Literature & the Arts Books
Literature & the Arts is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Literature & the Arts audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 16 Literature & the Arts audiobooks below.
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The Great Divorce
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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4.71(42 ratings)
4.71(42 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDC.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is thatC.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis’ The Great Divorce will change the way we think about good and evil.
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C. S. Lewis Essential Audio Library
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 38 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 07, 2021
- Language: English
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4.62(8 ratings)
4.62(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0048.99 USDNine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: * Mere Christianity * The Screwtape Letters * The Great Divorce * Miracles * The Problem of Pain * A Grief Observed * The Abolition of Man * The Weight of Glory * George MacDonald * -
Mere Christianity
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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4.34(100893 ratings)
4.34(100893 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDIn the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during WorldIn the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity provides an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear this powerful apologetic for the Christian faith.
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The Map of Heaven
- By: Eben Alexander
- Narrator: Eben Alexander
- Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.29(14 ratings)
4.29(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities asThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Proof of Heaven teams up with the sages of times past, modern scientists, and with ordinary people who have had profound spiritual experiences to show the reality of heaven and our true identities as spiritual beings.
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When Dr. Eben Alexander told the story of his near-death experience and his vivid journey to the other side, many readers wrote to say it resonated with them profoundly. Thanks to them, Dr. Alexander realized that sharing his story allowed people to rediscover what so many in ancient times knew: there is more to life, and to the universe, than this single earthly life.
Dr. Alexander and his coauthor Ptolemy Tompkins were surprised to see how often his readers’ visions of the afterlife synced up with each other and with those of the world’s spiritual leaders, as well as its philosophers and scientists. In The Map of Heaven, he shares the stories people have told him and shows how they are echoed both in the world’s faiths and in its latest scientific insights. It turns out there is much agreement, across time and terrain, about the journey of the soul and its survival beyond death.
In this book, Dr. Alexander makes the case for heaven as a genuine place, showing how we have forgotten, but are now at last remembering, who we really are and what our destiny truly is. The Map of Heaven takes the broad view to reveal how modern science is on the verge of the most profound revolution in recorded history–all around the phenomenon of consciousness itself! -
A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Douglas Gresham
- Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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4.21(15558 ratings)
4.21(15558 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDA classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnightA classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and the inspirational tale of how he can possibly regain his bearings.
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A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 1 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.21(15559 ratings)
4.21(15559 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDWritten after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This workWritten after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: “Nothing will shake a man—or at any rate a man like me—out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”
This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
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The Narnian
- By: Alan Jacobs
- Narrator: Alan Jacobs
- Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 11, 2005
- Language: English
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4.15(2723 ratings)
4.15(2723 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil — these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who createdThe White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil — these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who created this world? This audio book attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself.
One of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential religious writer of his day, Lewis was also an Oxford don and a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub. Yet one of the most intriguing aspects of Clive Staples Lewis remains unanswered. How did a bachelor professor, nearly fifty, and living in a wholly adult world, turn to the writing of stories for children — stories that would become among the most popular and beloved ever written?
Alan Jacobs masterfully tells the story of C. S. Lewis. From his childhood days in Ireland to his horrific experiences in the trenches of the First World War, to his friendship with J. R. R. Tolkein (and other members of the “Inklings”) and his remarkable late-life marriage to Joy Davidman, Jacobs traces the events and people that shaped Lewis’s philosophy, theology, and fiction. The story of a profound mind and extraordinary imagination, The Narnian is a remarkable tale of a man who knew great loss and great delight, but who knew above all that the world holds far more richness and meaning than the average eye can see.
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C. S. Lewis as Philosopher
- By: David Baggett
- Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.15(58 ratings)
4.15(58 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhat did C. S. Lewis think about Truth, Goodness, and Beauty? The fifteen essays collected here explore these three major philosophical themes from the writings of Lewis. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Lewis’ philosophicalWhat did C. S. Lewis think about Truth, Goodness, and Beauty? The fifteen essays collected here explore these three major philosophical themes from the writings of Lewis. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Lewis’ philosophical thinking on arguments for Christianity, the character of God, theodicy, moral goodness, heaven and hell, a theory of literature, and the place of the imagination.
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George MacDonald
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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4.14(238 ratings)
4.14(238 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDC. S. Lewis wrote of George MacDonald: “I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself.” Lewis also claimed that everything he wrote was influenced by this ScottishC. S. Lewis wrote of George MacDonald: “I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself.” Lewis also claimed that everything he wrote was influenced by this Scottish pastor and novelist who lived a century before Lewis. George MacDonald serves as an act of appreciation, with Lewis gathering 365 of the best and most profound lines from his mentor as well as providing a preface detailing the impact MacDonald had on Lewis’s own literary and spiritual career. Ranging from “Inexorable Love” to “God at the Door,” these words will instruct and uplift, like they did for C.S. Lewis himself.
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The Gilded Page
- By: Mary Wellesley
- Narrator: Mary Wellesley
- Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(301 ratings)
4.1(301 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII. Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because ofA breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII.
Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status–part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because he was a London-based government official first and a poet second. Other works by the less influential have narrowly avoided ruin, like the book of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet, the cover nibbled on by mice. Scholar Mary Wellesley recounts the amazing origins of these remarkable manuscripts, surfacing the important roles played by women and ordinary people–the grinders, binders, and scribes–in their creation and survival.
The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the manuscript age. Rich and surprising, it shows how the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands came from unexpected places.
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The Fellowship
- By: Philip Zaleski
- Narrator: Philip Zaleski
- Length: 26 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 02, 2015
- Language: English
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4.09(1283 ratings)
4.09(1283 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDA stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For threeA stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis’s Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings’ lives and works. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother’s motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into a breathtaking story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. This extraordinary group biography also focuses on Charles Williams, strange acolyte of Romantic love, and Owen Barfield, an esoteric philosopher who became, for a time, Saul Bellow’s guru. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized sanity, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century’s darkest years–and did so.
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Miracles
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 13, 2014
- Language: English
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4.04(2915 ratings)
4.04(2915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDIn the classic Miracles, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, argues that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation. -
Miracles
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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4.04(2915 ratings)
4.04(2915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDDo miracles really happen? Can we know if the supernatural world exists? “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.”Do miracles really happen? Can we know if the supernatural world exists?
“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.” This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in His creation.
Using his characteristic lucidity and wit to develop his argument, Lewis challenges the rationalists, agnostics, and deists on their own grounds. He makes an impressive case for the irrationality of their assumptions by positing: “Those who assume that miracles cannot happen are merely wasting their time by looking into the texts. We know in advance what results they will find for they have begun by begging the question.”
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El progreso del peregrino
- By: John Bunyan
- Narrator: John Bunyan
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Grupo Nelson
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: Spanish
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4.03(78 ratings)
4.03(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDImpresionantes ilustraciones pintadas a mano y comentarios esclarecedores dan vida a esta obra maestra. Escrito desde la celda de la carcel de Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino representa evocativamente una historia de lucha, perseverancia y fe. ConImpresionantes ilustraciones pintadas a mano y comentarios esclarecedores dan vida a esta obra maestra. Escrito desde la celda de la carcel de Bunyan, El progreso del peregrino representa evocativamente una historia de lucha, perseverancia y fe. Con anotaciones y arte a traves del libro, esta edicion te invita a descubrir de nuevo la riqueza y los matices de este querido clasico.
Originalmente escrito para el hombre comun, el clasico cristiano de John Bunyan tambien ha encontrado su camino en las bibliotecas de academicos y universidades, una verdadera obra maestra para todos los tiempos. Su riqueza historica, su simbolismo elocuente y su prosa deslumbrante han resistido la prueba del tiempo, y esta nueva edicion ayuda a los lectores a apreciar la belleza perdurable que se encuentra en las palabras de Bunyan.
Para los fanaticos desde hace mucho tiempo del cuento de Bunyan, o para aquellos que lo han encontrado por primera vez, esta edicion ilustrada ofrece una nueva belleza y perspectiva. A los fanaticos del texto les encantaran las hermosas escenas pintadas a mano al comienzo de cada capitulo, y los lectores obtendran una comprension mas profunda de la alegoria a partir de las anotaciones insertadas en cada capitulo de este cuento clasico.
El progreso del peregrino ha inspirado a los lectores a traves de los siglos a perseverar en su fe. Desde su publicacion en 1678, este libro ha sido traducido a mas de 200 idiomas. Es un best seller mundial, solo superado por la Biblia, y se ha convertido en un sello distintivo entre academicos y teologos de todo el mundo. !Un elemento basico para cualquier biblioteca domestica!
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The Most Reluctant Convert
- By: David C. Downing
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.01(454 ratings)
4.01(454 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDHis books have sold millions, including classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism toHis books have sold millions, including classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?
Unlike most biographies of Lewis, which tend to focus on his childhood and dramatic conversion to Christianity, this book discusses the largely overlooked period of his life between his childhood and his early thirties, during which he experienced a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration that ultimately led to his conversion. Professor David C. Downing, author of the critically acclaimed Planets in Peril (a study of Lewis’ Ransom trilogy), weaves the people, places, and events of Lewis’ life together with excerpts from Lewis’ own writing to show how Lewis’ spiritual quest can also light the path for other seekers.
For C. S. Lewis enthusiasts and students alike, this book offers a unique look at Lewis’ personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer.
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Jesus Is Here
- By: Charles M. Sheldon
- Narrator: Adams Morgan
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.62(37 ratings)
3.62(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhat if Jesus suddenly appeared on the streets of your own city? This is the premise of Jesus Is Here, Charles M. Sheldon’s sequel to his classic novel In His Steps, the book that introduced the slogan, “What Would Jesus Do?” YearsWhat if Jesus suddenly appeared on the streets of your own city? This is the premise of Jesus Is Here, Charles M. Sheldon’s sequel to his classic novel In His Steps, the book that introduced the slogan, “What Would Jesus Do?”
Years ago, members of the First Church of Raymond pledged to consider “What would Jesus do?” before taking any action, however large or small. Now, the Reverend Henry Maxwell and his congregation find themselves delving even deeper into the Christian life—by experiencing the very presence of Jesus in their midst. Jesus Is Here is a challenging, thought-provoking story, a reminder that the story of Jesus did not end on a cross two millennia ago but continues today. Join the church members of Raymond as they learn that Jesus is alive, here and now.
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