Literary Essays

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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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    • By: Andrea Levy
    • Narrated by: Andrea Levy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-14
    • Language: English
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    • Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel The Long Song and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller Small Island, reads a remarkable collection of short stories....

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    • Political and Literary Essays from Post-Soviet Ukraine
    • By: Vladislav Davidzon
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years. This anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the perspective of an observer at its center....

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

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    • By: David Hume
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-24
    • 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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    • Essays on Forgetting and Remembering Who We Are
    • By: Marion Winik
    • Narrated by: Sasha Dunbrooke
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-15
    • 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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    • By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. It follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 25-02-25
    • 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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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 131 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: Joseph Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York....

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    • By: Christine de Pizan
    • Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Catriona Keyes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Get yourself comfortable, and let Marian take you places you've never been before....

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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: 22-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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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    • Gay Talese’s New York
    • By: Gay Talese
    • Narrated by: Mike Ortego
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Legendary journalist Gay Talese presents a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.

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    • Selected Essays 1984-2021
    • By: Gary Indiana, Christian Lorentzen
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment....

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