Great Essays

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    • Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It
    • By: Alan Kohler
    • Narrated by: Alan Kohler
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • The escalation in house prices is a pain that has altered Australian society; it has increased inequality and profoundly changed the relationship between generations. Alan Kohler tells the story of how we got into this mess – and how we might get out of it....

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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English "prep school" and begins to wonder if this subliminal teaching....

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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: 29-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2013
    • 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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    • 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: 01-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • In Power 1983-1992
    • By: Alan Clark
    • Narrated by: Alan Clark
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....

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    • A Critical Essay on Krishnamurti's Teaching and Philosophy (Great Minds Series, Book 1)
    • By: Peter Fritz Walter
    • Narrated by: Peter Fritz Walter
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject....

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    • And Other Dispatches from Alaska’s Frontier
    • By: Seth Kantner
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • When Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice, it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska.

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    • How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to Transform the Indian Economy
    • By: Salman Anees Soz
    • Narrated by: Shahzad Bhiwandiwala
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Brought into power with the biggest political mandate in almost three decades, did the NDA government succeed in gainfully transforming India's economic trajectory or did it squander a once-in-a-generation opportunity? This book conjectures it is the latter....

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    • Essays
    • By: Andrew Farkas
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him....

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    • Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • By: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Nicole Poole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

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    • Major Works of a Great American Writer
    • By: Abraham Lincoln
    • Narrated by: George Vail
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-1999
    • Language: English
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    • We think of Lincoln as a great president, but he was also an eloquent and expressive writer...

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    • Un cínico viaje de ensayos y diatribas para develar el gran desfile de lo pretencioso [A Cynical Journey of Essays and Diatribes to Reveal the Great Parade of Pretentiousness]
    • By: Juan David Arbeláez
    • Narrated by: Juan David Arbeláez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2024
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Bienvenido a SOBREVALORADO, una obra magistral de Juan David Arbeláez que fusiona el estoicismo, el cinismo, el sarcasmo y el humor negro en un cóctel explosivo de ingenio y reflexión.

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    • By: H. G. Wells
    • Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • For many years now I have taken a part in the discussion of Socialism. During that time Socialism has become a more and more ambiguous term...

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    • Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life + The Five Great Philosophies of Life
    • By: Carl Hilty, William DeWitt Hyde
    • Narrated by: Lynnda Nelson, Douglas Wilkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Are you tired of chasing happiness and only to find it elusive and temporary? Do you yearn for a deeper understanding of the true meaning of life? Look no further than Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life, a book that will send you on a transformative journey toward lasting joy....

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    • Provocative Stories, Songs, Essays, Poems, Ads, and Jokes about the Personality Quirks and Crazy Ideas of Great People in History (Created with Artificial Intelligence)
    • By: Bryan Mattimore
    • Narrated by: Sarah Seltz
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking book, Fortune 500 innovation guru and creativity instructor Bryan Mattimore takes listeners on a journey through time to explore the unique personality quirks and crazy ideas of history's greats....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: David McCran
    • Length: 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Behold me on my way to an emigrant ship, on a hot morning early in june. my road lies through that part of London generally known to the initiated...

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