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December 8, 2025 618 mins
Unicorns by James Huneker audiobook. Genre: history Step into the sparkling, bohemian world of early 20th‑century art and ideas with James Huneker’s *Unicorns*, a dazzling collection of essays from one of America’s most brilliant, sharp‑tongued critics. Huneker moves effortlessly from Parisian cafés to New York concert halls, from smoky studios to crowded piano lofts, writing about painters, composers, writers, and performers with a wit so quick and an eye so keen that the people and places seem to leap alive in your ears. These “unicorns” are the rare spirits—artists and thinkers—who refuse to be ordinary, and Huneker tracks them with a blend of admiration, irreverence, and deep knowledge. Whether he’s capturing the electricity of a Chopin performance, sketching a flamboyant painter in a single cutting sentence, or musing on the wild directions of modern art, his voice feels uncannily contemporary: opinionated, cultured, funny, and passionate. This audiobook immerses you in a vanished cultural moment—fin‑de‑siècle Europe and Gilded Age America—while speaking directly to enduring questions: What makes great art? Why do some geniuses burn out while others change the world? Performed with nuance that highlights Huneker’s irony, elegance, and enthusiasm, *Unicorns* is perfect listening for lovers of classical music, modern art, and literary essays who want to be both entertained and provoked by a critic at the height of his powers. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:32) Chapter 02 (00:27:07) Chapter 03 (00:51:15) Chapter 04 (01:36:27) Chapter 05 (02:07:23) Chapter 06 (02:42:18) Chapter 07 (03:03:13) Chapter 08 (03:18:52) Chapter 09 (03:28:03) Chapter 10 (03:43:26) Chapter 11 (04:12:09) Chapter 12 (04:31:51) Chapter 13 (04:45:50) Chapter 14 (05:00:14) Chapter 15 (05:25:38) Chapter 16 (05:38:10) Chapter 17 (05:51:41) Chapter 18 (06:05:15) Chapter 19 (06:18:41) Chapter 20 (06:34:29) Chapter 21 (06:57:05) Chapter 22 (07:28:18) Chapter 23 (07:50:59) Chapter 24 (07:59:43) Chapter 25 (08:25:35) Chapter 26 (08:49:47) Chapter 27 (09:00:19) Chapter 28 (09:28:58) Chapter 29 (09:48:57) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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