Literary Essays

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    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Kate Harper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-2009
    • 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: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Catriona Keyes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2006
    • Language: English
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    • Get yourself comfortable, and let Marian take you places you've never been before....

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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally best-selling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House....

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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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    • By: David Hume
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2024
    • 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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    • The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark and Why They Matter
    • By: Carol Atherton
    • Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • English teacher Carol Atherton's love letter to reading illustrates the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better....

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    • Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Campbell Scott
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Here are Hemingway's most sensational dispatches, the behind-the-scenes stories that became For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises....

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    • Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series
    • By: Anthony M. Bean PhD - editor
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The Psychology of Zelda applies the latest psychological findings, plus insights from classic psychology theory, to Link, Zelda, Hyrule, and the players who choose to wield the Master Sword....

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    • By: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: Alberto Bergamini
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2024
    • Language: Italian
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    • Gli scritti riuniti in questa raccolta vertono sulle funzioni della letteratura, su autori che Eco ha frequentato a lungo come Nerval, Joyce, Borges (ma...

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    • By: Artem Chapeye, Zenia H. Tompkins - Translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Ukraine is a collection of twenty-six pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference.

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    • 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
    • By: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....

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    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.

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    • Essays on Forgetting and Remembering Who We Are
    • By: Marion Winik
    • Narrated by: Sasha Dunbrooke
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2015
    • Language: English
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    • "The Things They Googled" looks at how search engines have changed our lives. "Love, Loss, and What I Cooked" takes autobiography to the kitchen....

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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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    • By: Brad Phillips
    • Narrated by: Jon Leyden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and propriety, with rigorous self-awareness and generosity. By confusing ideas around fiction and autobiography, Phillips writes with painful sincerity about shame, addiction, trauma....

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    • By: Christine de Pizan
    • Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist cliches, and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time....

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