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 cover art

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: 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

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Jonathan Swift, various
Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, Peter Noble, Karen Cass, Kenneth Jay, Robin Laing, Malk Williams
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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
  • 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.

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