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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....

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    • Essays on Desire and Consumption
    • By: Katy Kelleher
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
    • By: Walter Rodney
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era....

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    • By: Susan Sontag
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....

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    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical....

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    • An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief
    • By: David Bentley Hart
    • Narrated by: Jim Denison
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent....

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    • A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....

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    • By: Voltaire
    • Narrated by: Donal Donnelly
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Preeminent French cynic and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) collected ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development....

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    • Essential Essays from Five Decades
    • By: Fritjof Capra
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, presents the evolution of his thought over five decades in Patterns of Connection....

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    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox....

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell and Many Others
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
    • Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Classic Collection of Philosophical Essays: Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell and Many Others...

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    • By: Tony Judt
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever experienced before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind....

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    • The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'N' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N' Roll
    • By: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 733 ratings
    • This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time....

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    • In These Streets
    • By: Jenifer Lewis
    • Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,677 ratings
    • Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul....

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