Classic Essays

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    • Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2012-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • Written by: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-02
    • Language: English
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    • This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time....

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    • Essays (FSG Classics)
    • Written by: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Susan Varon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-04
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.

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    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-08
    • Language: English
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    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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    • The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
    • Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory, Roger May, Ben Allen, Peter Noble
    • Length: 264 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-28
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal....

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    • 1984; Animal Farm; Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Burmese Days; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; and More
    • Written by: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Leighton Pugh, Malk Williams, Karen Cass
    • Length: 87 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry....

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    • Written by: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2011-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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    • Written by: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 47 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories....

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    • Written by: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2016-06-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about is of general interest....

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    • Written by: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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    • Written by: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-11
    • Language: English
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    • Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English....

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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • Written by: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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    • Written by: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • Written by: George Orwell, Bernard Crick
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-07
    • Language: English
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    • The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art....

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    • Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
    • Written by: Ted Kaczynski
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality....

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    • All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
    • Written by: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, Todd Kramer
    • Length: 280 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-29
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking travel writing....

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    • Written by: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2010-11-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport....

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