Classic Essays

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • 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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    • By: Alexander Pope
    • Narrated by: Denis Daly
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
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    • As the Enlightenment movement was gathering strength in the early 18th century, various challenges to established religious faith were launched. In response, a number of celebrated commentators produced defences of religion and morality, and among these was Alexander Pope....

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    • Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell and Many Others
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
    • Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Classic Collection of Philosophical Essays: Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell and Many Others...

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    • By: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • 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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    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-17
    • 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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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 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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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, Todd Kramer
    • Length: 280 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
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    • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....

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    • Essays (FSG Classics)
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Susan Varon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • 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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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • 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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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men..."

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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
    • 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: 03-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Marina Arnaudo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • “A Room of One’s Own” is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and a cornerstone of the feminist movement. In this brilliant essay, Woolf explores the limitations faced by women in the early 20th century, using captivating prose and the poetic style characteristic of a novelist.

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-11
    • Language: English
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    • 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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