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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He is best known for his political philosophy and ideological thoughts on the moral worth of the individual and his work greatly influenced many of the great thinkers of his time, including Henry David Thoreau.
Some of the greatest works of Ralph Waldo Emerson include the Over Soul, which discusses the existence of the soul and its connection to the ego as well as the human soul's relationship to God. In "Circles", he discusses the vast array of circles in nature and how they seem to be repeating patterns in the natural universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is often referred to as one of the greatest thinkers in history. His revolutionary views on life and religion are evident in his numerous essays.
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Deep and thought provoking.
- By Holly Stockley on 04-24-19
By: Anthony Esolen
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The Coming Race
- By: Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book is ostensibly a work of Science Fiction. It deals with an underground race of advanced beings, masters of Vril energy - a strange power that can both heal and destroy - who intend to leave their subterranean existence and conquer the world. But the book has been seen by many as a barely concealed account of Hidden Wisdom, a theory that has attracted many strange bed-fellows, including the French author Louis Jacolliot, the Polish explorer Ferdinand Ossendowsky, and Adolf Hitler.
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dated - worked to get through it
- By Cat Lover who doesn't work out on 10-10-19
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The Art of Manliness - Manvotionals
- Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues
- By: Brett McKay, Kate McKay
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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What makes a man manly? Master the art of manliness by learning about the seven manly virtues in this essential guide from authors Brett and Kate McKay. Each chapter covers one of the seven virtues and is packed with the best classic advice ever written down for men.
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Just Quotes, No Content. Save Your Credit!
- By chris on 10-28-13
By: Brett McKay, and others
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The Roman Way
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, their loves and hates. In them we see reflected a picture of Roman life very different from that fixed in our minds through schoolroom days, and far livelier.
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Not so bad
- By steve on 04-25-11
By: Edith Hamilton
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: John Little
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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Puzzled
- By James on 04-06-04
By: Will Durant
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Life Is Worth Living, Part 1
- By: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
- Narrated by: Fulton J. Sheen
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Here is the best of the audio from the famous Catholic television program, "Life is Worth Living!" For more than 30 years, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the voice of the Catholic Church, with his radio and television ministries that touched hearts all over the world. His wisdom and gentle insight are once again available in digitally remastered audio recorded from his live programs.
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Amazing audiobook!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-14
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this definitive collection of essays, including the poignant title essay "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the importance of trusting your soul, as well as divine providence, to carve out a life. A firm believer in nonconformity, Emerson celebrates the individual and stresses the value of listening to the inner voice unique to each of us—even when it defies society's expectations.
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This book is like a series of great quotes!
- By M. Allen on 01-16-19
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Self Reliance
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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Don't buy this
- By Leah L on 07-31-16
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays....
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Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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Finally!
- By Douglas on 08-15-14
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance.
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Riggenbach's Essays, Not Emerson's
- By Jake Behm on 12-01-15
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Nature
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 51 mins
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This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: commodity, beauty, language and discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another, and their understanding of the world.
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Beautiful Classic, rushed reading
- By Chris C. on 01-07-21
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In this definitive collection of essays, including the poignant title essay "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the importance of trusting your soul, as well as divine providence, to carve out a life. A firm believer in nonconformity, Emerson celebrates the individual and stresses the value of listening to the inner voice unique to each of us—even when it defies society's expectations.
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This book is like a series of great quotes!
- By M. Allen on 01-16-19
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Self Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Alana Munro
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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Don't buy this
- By Leah L on 07-31-16
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays....
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Emerson
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- By: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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Finally!
- By Douglas on 08-15-14
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history. Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance.
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Riggenbach's Essays, Not Emerson's
- By Jake Behm on 12-01-15
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Nature
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 51 mins
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This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: commodity, beauty, language and discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another, and their understanding of the world.
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Beautiful Classic, rushed reading
- By Chris C. on 01-07-21
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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This audiobook compiles Ralph Waldo Emerson's most important works: "The American Scholar", "The Divinity School Address", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet", and "Thoreau". The audiobook is expertly read by Daniel Adam Day. Published by American Renaissance Books.
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Chapters
- By LORA LLOYD on 01-12-24
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Mastery of Life
- The Self-Help Classics of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
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The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life – they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson’s ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities.
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Another great from a Great.
- By Reid Hicks on 05-18-18
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The Ultimate Henry David Thoreau Collection
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. Thoreau's literary style combines the observation of nature with personal experience, symbolic meaning, and historical lore. His books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes.
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The Narration Is TERRIBLE
- By Patrick on 06-26-21
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Transcendentalism
- Walden, Self-Reliance, Leaves of Grass, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking and Nature: Exemplary Collection of Essays and Poems
- By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and others
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Transcendentalism embodies the concept that people have a deeper and more profound understanding of the world around them than simply by what they can glimpse with their senses. In this collection of essays and poems, the works of three transcendentalist authors are shared, each with their own impressions and opinions supporting the movement.
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The power of the mind
- By Rachel A. on 10-20-22
By: Henry David Thoreau, and others
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I Know What to Do, So Why Don't I Do It?
- The New Science of Self-Discipline
- By: Nick Hall
- Narrated by: Nick Hall
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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You might think laziness, lack of willpower, and/or low motivation are to blame for the fact that you aren't achieving your goals. But fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another, far more likely possibility. One with the potential to transform your life in a dramatic way.
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Big Disappointment!
- By TP on 01-29-15
By: Nick Hall
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature.
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- By Kenneth on 05-08-09
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Emerson's Essential Essays, Volume 1
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and writer best known for leading the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was also a heavy influence in romanticism or the Romantic era. Through his lectures, essays, and poems, Emerson championed individualism and following one's intuition, believing one will become a more moral and idealistic person in so doing. This collection is eight of Emerson's essays from The First Series published in 1841 and The Second Series published in 1844 including "Self-Reliance", "Circles", and more.
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annoying voice actor
- By Brett Monson on 05-21-22
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Compensation
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Emerson's discourse on the laws of compensation, takes on the notion that one who has money must be wicked and those who do not must be good, among other topics. It appeared in his book Essays, first published in 1841.
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Compensation by Emerson
- By Plato on 06-08-21
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Nature
- An Essay
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece, written in a pure, uninhibited style, combining sensual and mystical sensibilities. Its bold, joyous voice, its expansive optimism, and its transcendental vision made it uniquely American.
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No chapters! Can't skip to a particular poem :(
- By April Antoniou on 02-08-13
By: Walt Whitman
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Emerson: Essential Emerson - Key Works of the American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Don Randall
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Here is an accessible introduction to Emerson's work. It includes essays interspersed with classic Emerson poetry. Included in this audiobook are:"Music", "Divinity School Address", "The Concord Hymn", "Give All to Love", "The Lords of Life", "Experience", "Self Reliance", and "Grace."
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Confused...
- By Shy on 07-22-10
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The Over-Soul
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Robin Haynes
- Length: 45 mins
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In his essay The Over-Soul, Ralph Waldo Emerson outlines his belief in a God that resides in each of us and whom we can communicate with, without membership in a church or the assistance of an intermediary church official.
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the soul of man(woman)
- By DR. Mckinley on 05-29-22
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- Shaun Parkman
- 07-22-23
Good material weak narration
Brilliant thinker and ideas. He delivers thoughts rapid fire and let’s you pick up the pieces. But why would they choose a Brit to narrate? That makes no sense. And such a atonal delivery.
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- Hank
- 07-14-17
Rich, Wonderful, and Insightful
In many aspects one can say that Emerson’s essays are a series of motivational, self-improvement articles that are very well written and rich with insight and meaning. No other author’s work truly embodies the beauty of life with so few words. This book is a must read for the serious thinker as well as those interested in philosophy or spirituality.
The reader did a real good job with the dialect and keeping an even pace throughout the read. No matter if you're discovering Emerson for the first time or are already familiar with his work, if you have a philosophical thinking mind you won’t want to pass up these essays.
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- J. S.
- 06-15-21
Great material, weak narration
The material and thought in these essays is baffling in its profundity. To think this was just how people communicated their thoughts in the 1800s. Our society has gotten so much dumber.
The narrator here is very robotic and boring tho.
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- Joshua Balkenhol
- 05-24-21
Needs to be read
this book needs to be read in person, the material is too deep and complex to be understood in an Audio format
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- Marko Two Pockets Mallinger
- 08-11-23
Love Emerson, but narrator…..
I love Emerson’s writing, but the narrator is awful. His nasally tenor hurts my nerves and his cadence and sylabolic emphasis sounds like Seri or AI.
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- Trish
- 12-29-19
Stop! And listen!
Emerson's essay series will rouse your understanding of the human experience and meaningful pursuits, and is arguably the most important book you will ever read, over and over.
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- Richard Del Connor
- 06-27-22
Great words and great fluff
I’m glad I’ve got time to get smarter now. I spent too much of my life trading my hours for dollars. Now I can work for my intellect.
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- Christopher B. Murray
- 10-19-19
Great Essays, Unlistenable Performance
I love Emerson's essays, but this performance sounds almost like a computer simulating a man's voice. A couple of minutes in, I had to stop listening. Plus, the actor reads so quickly that the listener doesn't have time to contemplate the thoughts. Very disappointing.
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- Michelle
- 09-12-23
The narration is irritating
This was my first introduction to Emerson. I appreciate his famous quotes, but either I don’t like Emerson, or I just don’t like the narrator.
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- xxx
- 03-05-20
pompous drone
the actor has a british accent which i guess is supposed to make him sound smart, but he obviously doesn't really understand what he's reading. if you want to be read to by a british robot, enjoy
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