Classic Essays

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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: 08-12-17
    • 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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    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Kate Harper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-09
    • 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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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell, Bernard Crick
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • 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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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-11
    • 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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    • 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: 28-03-24
    • 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
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Leighton Pugh, Malk Williams, Karen Cass
    • Length: 87 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 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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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-14
    • 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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    • '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: 27-02-18
    • 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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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays....

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    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-11
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 29-07-24
    • 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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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • 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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    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Prunella Scales
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett....

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