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Night Thoughts
- An Essay
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-05-26
- Language: English
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Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents.
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
- By: Brianna Wiest
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: This idea changed my life.
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This just one long list.
- By mr b w hutchison on 29-08-21
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
- Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the...
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Hot Banana
- A Compilation of Memoirs in Essays
- By: Abi Roberts
- Narrated by: Abi Roberts
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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On 27th June 2023, comedian and writer Abi Roberts was arrested outside the UK Covid Inquiry. She spent 17 hours in a police cell. Her crime: swearing when told not to. This is just one moment (well, 17 hours) in Abi’s vivid life. From tales of flattening grass in Swansea, and being baptized in Russia, to the world of stand-up comedy and fighting global medical tyranny. Music is Abi’s first love, and like an album, this exhilarating compilation of memoirs is divided into 12 'tracks’ rather than the standard ‘chapters’.
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Hot Banana
- A Compilation of Memoirs in Essays
- Narrated by: Abi Roberts
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-05-26
- Language: English
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On 27th June 2023, comedian and writer Abi Roberts was arrested outside the UK Covid Inquiry. She spent 17 hours in a police cell. Her crime: swearing when told not to. This is just one moment (well, 17 hours) in Abi’s vivid life.
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”. First published in 1946, the essay exploded the language trends of the time and served as an inflection point in the debate about communication in the 20th century. This collection of essays published 1946-48 provides a comprehensive critique of the status of politics and speech in the mid-century.
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-02-21
- Language: English
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Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”....
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
- By: Thomas Malthus
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year. In many countries, supplies of food and water are inadequate to support the population, so the world falls deeper and deeper into what economists call the "Malthusian trap". Here, Malthus examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence.
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An interesting period piece, who's time has come.
- By Jason on 18-04-14
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-04-13
- Language: English
- While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year....
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Essays
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell, Bernard Crick - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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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- By Anonymous on 02-02-21
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Essays
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
- 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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Quarterly Essay 101: Blind Spot
- Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future
- By: Professor Michael Wesley
- Narrated by: Professor Michael Wesley
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world. Southeast Asia is the key to our national security and prosperity. If China dominates the region, as it plans to, Australia will be very vulnerable. So why are we following an American strategy that isolates and alienates us from our neighbours? Wesley argues that the focus on AUKUS and sticking with Trump is a dangerous distraction. Whereas the United States has little at stake in Southeast Asia, Australia has everything to lose.
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Quarterly Essay 101: Blind Spot
- Southeast Asia and Australia’s Future
- Narrated by: Professor Michael Wesley
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
- Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world. Southeast Asia is the key to our national security and prosperity.
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Essays
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition and atheism.
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Essays
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-01-22
- Language: English
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Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617....
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The Essays
- A Selection
- By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself.
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A must-read book (and brilliant narration)
- By Alex R. on 06-04-26
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The Essays
- A Selection
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
- Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Thomas Judd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by M. A. Screech. 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...
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Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War
- Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face? White assesses America’s credibility and commitment, by examining AUKUS, the Quad, Trump and Biden. He discusses what the Ukraine conflict tells us about the future. And he argues that the US can neither contain China nor win a war over Taiwan. So where does this leave our future security and prosperity in Asia?
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Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War
- Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 27-06-22
- Language: English
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In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face....
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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American writer Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain has given us some literary gems with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and his travel adventures in 19th-century Europe and to Australia and New Zealand. In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories.
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 24-01-12
- Language: English
- In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain discusses the telling of stories, rather than providing more stories....
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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a singular experience
- By Curran on 28-08-13
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-09-11
- Language: English
- A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible....
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Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars
- How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy
- By: Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
- Narrated by: Scott Stephens
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate—and the threat it now faces. In a healthy society we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to disdain and dismiss opponents, to treat them with contempt. This toxic partisanship has been imported from the United States, where it has been a temptation for both left and right.
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Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars
- How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy
- Narrated by: Scott Stephens
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-22
- Language: English
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Is our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate—and the threat it now faces....
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Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf
- Albanese and the New Politics
- By: Katharine Murphy
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians up for it? What does the new prime minister embody, if anything? Has the centre of the polity shifted, with the success of the Teals and the Greens? Where could – and should – the new government be ambitious?
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Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf
- Albanese and the New Politics
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-11-22
- Language: English
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In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation....
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Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning
- How #MeToo Is Changing Australia
- By: Jess Hill
- Narrated by: Jess Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets. In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill traces the conditions that gave birth to #MeToo and tells the stories of women who – often at great personal cost – found themselves at the centre of this movement. Hill exposes the networks of backlash against them – in government, media, schools and in our national psyche.
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Me too from down under
- By papapownall on 09-12-21
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Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning
- How #MeToo Is Changing Australia
- Narrated by: Jess Hill
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-11-21
- Language: English
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In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets....
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Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning
- Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia
- By: Sarah Krasnostein
- Narrated by: Sarah Krasnostein
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose, and the pandemic is only making things worse. What is to be done? In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell.
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Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning
- Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia
- Narrated by: Sarah Krasnostein
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-03-22
- Language: English
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Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose....
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays
- A Room of One's Own, The Common Reader, The London Scene, The Common Reader: Second Series, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, The Moment and Other Essays, & Three Guineas
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Emma Gregory, Kristen Atherton, and others
- Length: 45 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays contains the most important and impactful of Woolf's non-fiction writing, including five essay collections and her most renowned essay: A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.
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Extensive collection of Woolf's essays
- By Sarah Townley on 03-01-26
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays
- A Room of One's Own, The Common Reader, The London Scene, The Common Reader: Second Series, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, The Moment and Other Essays, & Three Guineas
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins, Emma Gregory, Kristen Atherton, Georgia Maguire, Tania Rodrigues, Karen Cass
- Length: 45 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-12-25
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf: The Essays contains the most important and impactful of Woolf's non-fiction writing, including five essay collections and her most renowned essay: A Room of One's Own.
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Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind
- Electrification and Community Renewal
- By: Saul Griffith
- Narrated by: Saul Griffith
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively when it comes to renewable energy, and benefiting financially. He considers both equity and security – an end to dependence on foreign oil, for instance. He explores the rejuvenation of regional Australia, as well as the rise of a new populist movement driven by Australian women. And he explodes once and for all the trees v. jobs binary. This is an electrifying essay about building a better world, one community at a time.
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Fact and solutions driven clarity of Energy needs.
- By Anonymous on 22-09-24
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Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind
- Electrification and Community Renewal
- Narrated by: Saul Griffith
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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The country is at a crossroads. In The Wires That Bind, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith reveals the world that awaits us if we make the most of Australia’s energy future....
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
- By: Michel de Montaigne
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 53 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of "essays" - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals, and books to thumbs, war-horses, and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candor about love, grief, friendship, sex, and death.
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extraordinarily modern
- By Anonymous on 06-02-25
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 53 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of "essays" - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects....
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Essays in Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.
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Don't 'read' when your heart is breaking
- By Jeffiner Mitchell on 27-11-16
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Essays in Love
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-12-10
- Language: English
- Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story....
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