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This audiobook contains nine essays:
- "The Poet",
- "Experience",
- "Character",
- "Manners",
- "Gifts",
- "Nature",
- "Politics",
- "Nominalist and Realist",
- "New England Reformers".
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of his age. He was a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of society.©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature
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The Consolations of Philosophy
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- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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Looking Backward
- De: Edward Bellamy
- Narrado por: Edward Lewis
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy's prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from a world of war and want to a world of peace and plenty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This Book is socialist Propaganda
- De Paul en 04-26-04
De: Edward Bellamy
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The Education of Henry Adams
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, The Education of Henry Adams recounts his own and the country's education from 1838, the year of his birth, to 1905, incorporating the Civil War, capitalist expansion, and the growth of the United States as a world power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book EVERYONE should read once.
- De Darwin8u en 04-17-12
De: Henry Adams
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Letters to a Young Poet
- De: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Priceless Recordings of Intense Feeling
- De David en 10-08-04
De: Rainer Maria Rilke, y otros
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The Greek Way
- De: Edith Hamilton
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 316
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Based on a thorough study of Greek life and civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy, and art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the past can be to us in the troubled present. Miss Hamilton's book must take its place with the few interpretative volumes which are permanently rooted and profoundly alive in our literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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...Not as Good as The Echo of Greece
- De The Masked Reviewer en 11-04-16
De: Edith Hamilton
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
- De: William James
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 77
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The Varieties of Religious Experience is considered to be the classic work in the field. To quote Wikipedia, "James was most interested in understanding personal religious experience. The importance of James to the psychology of religion - and to psychology more generally - is difficult to overstate. He discussed many essential issues that remain of vital concern today. What makes James writing so special is that he could take a very complex subject and, without watering it down, make it understandable to 'the rest of us.'"
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound stuff
- De Empowerment en 09-05-09
De: William James
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Life Is Worth Living, Part 1
- De: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
- Narrado por: Fulton J. Sheen
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 384
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 327
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing audiobook!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-03-14
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The Art of Manliness - Manvotionals
- Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues
- De: Brett McKay, Kate McKay
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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Just Quotes, No Content. Save Your Credit!
- De chris en 10-28-13
De: Brett McKay, y otros
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The Renaissance
- Studies in Art and Poetry
- De: Walter Pater
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wanda McCaddon and Pater = 😍
- De Tyler en 02-01-21
De: Walter Pater
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Measure for Measure
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Royal Shakespeare Company
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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A performance of the tragi-comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo, is left to revive the old discipline of civic authority. Angelo's first act is to imprison Claudio, a young nobleman who has gotten his betrothed, Juliet, with child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
- De Todd en 10-16-08
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Heretics
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Ulf Bjorklund
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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"Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law - all these like sheep had gone astray...."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Like having Steven Hawking read poetry
- De J. Gorton en 02-29-16
De: G. K. Chesterton