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The Ultimate Essays Collection: 30 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Swift, various
Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, Peter Noble, Karen Cass, Kenneth Jay, Nerissa Bradley, Robin Laing, Malk Williams
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The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 30 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including George Orwell; Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zorea Neale Huston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more. The titles included in this collection, in chronological order, are:

  • A Modest Proposal, by Johnathan Swift
  • A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
  • Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
  • Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
  • Death of a Moth, by Virginia Woolf
  • Editorial Wild Oats, by Mark Twain
  • How it Feels to be Coloured Me, by Zora Neale Huston
  • Looking Back on the Spanish War, George Orwell
  • Morning on the Wissahiccon, by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Notes on Nationalism, by George Orwell
  • On the Cannibals, by Michel de Montagrie
  • On the Purpose of Hating and On Going on a Journey, by William Hazlitt
  • Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell
  • Revolution, by Jack London
  • Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Street Haunting: A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf
  • The Crack Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Lantern Bearers, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Lion and the Unicorn, by George Orwell
  • The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes
  • Thoughts for the Times of War and Death, by Sigmund Freud
  • Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
  • Walking, Civil Disobedience, and Economy, by Henry David Thoreau
  • What Is Art?, by Leo Tolstoy
  • Why I Write, George Orwell
  • Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • You and the Atomic Bomb, by George Orwell

The full cast includes: Robert G. Slade; Ian Porter; Ako Mitchell; Peter Noble; Karen Cass; Kenneth Jay; Nerissa Bradley; Robin Laing; and Malk Williams. This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.

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