Literary Essays

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    • Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....

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    • Essays on Elsewhere
    • By: André Aciman
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest....

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    • By: David Hume
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • David Hume (1711-1776) remains a major figure in British philosophy, particularly for two or three works, including A Treatise on Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. But he was also a prolific essayist and historian. Presented here in the main collection are 47 essays.

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    • Selected Reporting Pieces
    • By: Ian Frazier
    • Narrated by: Ian Frazier
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, captures, and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-11
    • Language: English
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    • "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: James Wood
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In 23 passionate, sparkling dispatches Wood here offers a panoramic look at the modern novel....

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    • By: Cynthia Ozick
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history....

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    • A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
    • By: Michael Dirda
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • From Pulitzer Prize - winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life - the perfect companion for any lover of books....

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    • Essays
    • By: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Colm Toibin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

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    • Essays and Stories
    • By: Marina Keegan
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-14
    • Language: English
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    • Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012....

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    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Kate Harper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-09
    • Language: English
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    • Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim....
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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-09
    • Language: English
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    • Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a man living in Paris in the early 1930s without a penny.....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: E.M. Forster
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
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    • A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting values....

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    • By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. It follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset....

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