The Ultimate Essays Collection: 20+ of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from Thomas Paine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More
A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Revolution, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Kingdom of God is Within You, The Weary Blues, Walden, & More
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The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 24 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zora Neale Hurston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more. The titles included in this collection, in chronological order, are:
- A Modest Proposal, by Johnathan Swift
- A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
- Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
- Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
- Death of a Moth, by Virginia Woolf
- Editorial Wild Oats, by Mark Twain
- How it Feels to be Coloured Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Morning on the Wissahiccon, by Edgar Allan Poe
- On the Cannibals, by Michel de Montagrie
- On the Purpose of Hating and On Going on a Journey, by William Hazlitt
- Revolution, by Jack London
- Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Street Haunting: A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf
- The Crack Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy
- The Lantern Bearers, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Philosophy of Composition, by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes
- Thoughts for the Times of War and Death, by Sigmund Freud
- Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- Walking, Civil Disobedience, and Economy, by Henry David Thoreau
- What Is Art?, by Leo Tolstoy
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The full cast includes: Robert G. Slade; Ian Porter; Ako Mitchell; Peter Noble; Karen Cass; Kenneth Jay; Nerissa Bradley; Robin Laing; and Malk Williams.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
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