History Essays

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • 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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    • The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
    • By: Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne....

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    • Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream....

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    • What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Aimee Horne
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more....

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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: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history....

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    • Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • By: Susan Sontag
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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