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Essays Collection, Vol. 01

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Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passages in books where they have lain hidden for decades. Britannica defines an essay as "an analytic, interpretive, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subjects from a limited and often personal point of view." In short, an essay is neither fiction nor a short story, but a composition designed to educate/persuade more than entertain or inform, though essays sometimes do both, or neither. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC/DPL) (7 hr 18 min)

Chapters

The Case of the Officers of Excise by Thomas Paine

37:39

Read by Peter Yearsley

All Things Are Possible, Part 1, no. 79 by Lev Shestov

4:32

Read by Scotty Smith

Crisis 1 (These are the times that try men's souls), from The American Crisis b…

22:11

Read by Michele Fry

On Authors by Margaret Prescott Montague

10:55

Read by Paula Messina

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

42:26

Read by Atul Sharma

Scientifiction, Searchlight of Science by Jack Williamson

4:14

Read by Ben Tucker

A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift

22:05

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Shakespere by Samuel P. Putnam

20:43

Read by Michele Fry

At the Turning of the Year by William Sharp

14:01

Read by KevinS

Sicut Dudum (1435) by Pope Eugene IV

6:22

Read by Paula Messina

Freedom and Enterprise by F. A. Harper

54:08

Read by Michele Fry

The Day After Christmas by Joyce Kilmer

15:21

Read by Paula Messina

The Fun of Writing by Christopher Morley

5:04

Read by Larry Wilson

Darwinian Hypothesis by T H Huxley

42:42

Read by bobpliley

The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock

11:34

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Problem of Consciousness by Walter S. Hunter

1:09:18

Read by Glenn Carruthers

The White Rose Road by Sarah Orne Jewett

26:37

Read by Elsie Selwyn

Signs and Symbols by Joyce Kilmer

8:18

Read by Tatsu MJ

A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman

5:08

Read by Christine Rottger

Looking Back on Girlhood by Sarah Orne Jewett

15:16

Read by Elsie Selwyn