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 cover art

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

Common Sense, Notes on Nationalism, A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Weary Blues, Walden, Why I Write, & More

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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

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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 compilation of thirty classic essays spanning seventeenth century satire to modernist manifestos – all read by an award-winning cast of narrators including Peter Noble, Robert G. Slade, Karen Cass, Robin Laing, Ako Mitchell, Malk Williams and Nerissa Bradley.

Included in this definitive collection are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Zora Neale Hurston, Edgar Allan Poe amongst others. Discover profound meditations on everything from war to love, race to nature, politics to faith.

The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, 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 Hurston
  • Looking Back on the Spanish War by 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

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