Classic Essays

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    • 1984; Animal Farm; Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Burmese Days; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; and More
    • Written by: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Leighton Pugh, Malk Williams, Karen Cass
    • Length: 87 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry....

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    • The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
    • Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory, Roger May, Ben Allen
    • Length: 266 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-28
    • Language: English
    • 8 ratings
    • This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal....

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    • Or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • Written by: Francis Bacon
    • Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • Francis Bacon (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Albans, Attorney General and then Lord Chancellor of England, was an immensely learned, clever and ambitious man, with considerable political influence....

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    • Written by: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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    • All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
    • Written by: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, Todd Kramer
    • Length: 280 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-29
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking travel writing....

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    • Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • 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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    • Written by: Jack Kerouac
    • Narrated by: Will Patton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2007-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 77 ratings
    • A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open...

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    • Stories
    • Written by: Colm Toibin
    • Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2026-03-31
    • Language: English
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    • One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of...

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    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Saul Reichlin, known for their roles in War and Peace and Miss Marple. This definitive recording includes an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale, also read by Saul Reichlin. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in...

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    • Penguin Classics
    • Written by: Virginia Woolf
    • Narrated by: Natalie Dormer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 41 ratings
    • Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • Written by: George Orwell, Bernard Crick - introduction
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-07
    • Language: English
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    • Brought to you by Penguin. The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine...

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    • Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2012-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 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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    • Written by: Henri J. M. Nouwen
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Series: The Return of the Prodigal Son, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2025-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • With over a million copies sold, this classic work is essential reading for all who ask, “Where has my struggle led me?” Recommended reading for Hallow’s 2026 Lent Pray40 Community Prayer Challenge A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son...

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • Written by: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-02
    • Language: English
    • 26 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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    • Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
    • Written by: Ted Kaczynski
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 22 ratings
    • Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality....

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    • A Life of the Mind
    • Written by: Thomas Meyer, Shelley Frisch - translator
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 2026-08-11
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family...

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