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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great introduction to Philosophy
- By C. R. Grice on 25-03-2017
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Autobiography of a Yogi
- By: Paramahansa Yogananda
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Insight Into Indian Life and Spirituality
- By meredith on 29-06-2015
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As a Man Thinketh
- By: James Allen
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Story5 out of 5 stars 168
This audiobook version of As A Man Thinketh is true to the original....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Amazing
- By Client d'Amazon on 21-09-2018
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The Art of War [Blackstone Version]
- By: Sun-Tzu, translation by John Minford
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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old time fav
- By Krystal on 08-03-2018
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great introduction to Philosophy
- By C. R. Grice on 25-03-2017
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Autobiography of a Yogi
- By: Paramahansa Yogananda
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Insight Into Indian Life and Spirituality
- By meredith on 29-06-2015
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As a Man Thinketh
- By: James Allen
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Story5 out of 5 stars 168
This audiobook version of As A Man Thinketh is true to the original....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Amazing
- By Client d'Amazon on 21-09-2018
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The Art of War [Blackstone Version]
- By: Sun-Tzu, translation by John Minford
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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old time fav
- By Krystal on 08-03-2018
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Beyond Good and Evil
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile. The summaries are a godsend
- By MR on 05-02-2019
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
- By: The Great Courses, Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, and others
- Narrated by: Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, and others
- Length: 43 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
With this series of lectures, you can encompass 3,000 years of philosophical debate - by the end of next month....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some speakers better than others
- By Stacey on 23-01-2019
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On Anarchism
- By: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider (introduction)
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential ideas in understanding our world.
- By VB on 05-03-2019
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The Lord God Made Them All
- By: James Herriot
- Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Abridged
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The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be - at work in the dales around Darrowby....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Long but worth it
- By Rohini Manohar on 13-03-2017
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On the Nature of Things
- By: Lucretius
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
This famous work by Lucretius is a masterpiece of didactic poetry, and it still stands today as the finest exposition of Epicurean philosophy ever written....
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Civil Disobedience
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Henry David Thoreau's classic essay inspired Martin Luther King, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and many other activists....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoreau is brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 29-02-2016
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C. S. Lewis
- Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive, delight to listen to
- By Anna on 03-05-2017
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts....
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you!
- By Dr David Abelson on 06-01-2019
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The Richest Man in Babylon
- Original 1926 Edition
- By: George S. Clason, Charles Conrad
- Narrated by: Charles Conrad
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
The ancient Babylonians were the first people to discover the universal laws of prosperity....
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Plato's Republic
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Ron Welch
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Plato's The Republic is regarded as one of the most significant works in the history of literature. Plato seeks to define justice - what it means to society, to politics, to humankind....
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The Prince
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
In an attempt to appeal to the Medici family during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli outlines the way to acquire and retain political power, and how great men should behave in a princely government....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overrated
- By Amazon Customer on 24-11-2018
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The Interpretation of Dreams
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives....
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- By: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
Meditations is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great book but
- By Bachir El Khoury on 30-03-2015
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Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle
- By: Robert C. Bartlett, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert C. Bartlett
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
It is easy to forget that questions about fundamental issues like justice, injustice, virtue, vice, or happiness were not always eternal. They once had to be asked for the first time....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Buy any other book
- By Omar on 12-09-2017
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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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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
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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The Problems of Philosophy
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
The Problems of Philosophy is Russell's first attempt at recording and working through a theory of epistemology, which is the theory of the nature of human knowledge....
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Philippe Duquenoy
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
First published in the 19th century, On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and controversial books ever written on human origins....
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Self Reliance, Nature, The Transcendentalist
- Plus Bonus Content
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Richard Banks, Patrick Jonathan, Greg McCarthy, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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In this program you will receive unabridged recordings of "Self Reliance", "Nature", and "The Transcendentalist" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. You will also bonus content....
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The Game of Life and How to Play It
- By: Florence Scovel Shinn
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Through stories of real-life situations and biblical tenets, Shinn teaches that the empowering use of positive attitude and affirmations can create a path to wealth....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a bad listen
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-2017
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts....
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On Death and Dying
- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Family
- By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross MD
- Narrated by: Carol Bilger, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill....
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5 out of 5 stars
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First read in 1982
- By Kindle Customer on 30-03-2018
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Thoreau: Walden / Civil Disobedience (Unabridged)
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Literature
- By Amazon Customer on 23-11-2016
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The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida
- By: Lawrence Cahoone, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Lawrence Cahoone
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
You'll explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements and thinkers....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent foray into philosophy.
- By Dylan on 19-03-2018
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Kevin Theis
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Written in the mid 1880's by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a critically-acclaimed work centered around the "death of God" and the rise of a superhuman....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Happy I got this version
- By I_Complex on 06-01-2018
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Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus
- By: Hermes Trismegistus
- Narrated by: Arthur Rowan
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Corpus Hermeticum is the primary work of the Hermetic tradition. The book is written in a discourse format, detailing many theological topics written by Hermes....
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion....
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Aristotle's Poetics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts....
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Diane Keaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous time capsule
- By Felicity on 15-10-2018
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The Self Help Bundle
- The Science of Getting Rich, Self Reliance, Acres of Diamonds, and A Message to Garcia
- By: Wallace D. Wattles, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Russell H. Conwell, and others
- Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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All four of these classic self-help works have stood the test of time and are enjoyed by people all over the world to this day....
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Walden, or Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Robert Bethune
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he built in the woods....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply beautiful and philosophical
- By raz on 11-02-2018
New Releases
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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The Art of Being Right
- The Perfect Guide to Spotting Bullshit, Avoiding Cheap Tricks and Winning Arguments
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Chirag Patel
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.
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A Pluralistic Universe
- By: William James
- Narrated by: Vincent Berlin
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pluralistic Universe by the philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) is based on a series of lectures held at Oxford University in 1908. James is mainly concerned with the nature of relations, stating the possibility of external relations which were excluded from monistic idealism. James maintains that we are guided by beliefs that we attempt to justify in order to keep our beliefs going.
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The Art of Conversation
- Twelve Golden Rules
- By: Josephine Turck Baker
- Narrated by: Andrew Morantz
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules is a timeless classic originally published in 1907.
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How to Keep Your Cool
- An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- By: Seneca, James S. Romm - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In his essay On Anger, the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca argues that anger is the most destructive passion. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples, anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity.
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Self Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Calling for staunch individualism, "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.
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The Art of Being Right
- The Perfect Guide to Spotting Bullshit, Avoiding Cheap Tricks and Winning Arguments
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Chirag Patel
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.
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A Pluralistic Universe
- By: William James
- Narrated by: Vincent Berlin
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pluralistic Universe by the philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) is based on a series of lectures held at Oxford University in 1908. James is mainly concerned with the nature of relations, stating the possibility of external relations which were excluded from monistic idealism. James maintains that we are guided by beliefs that we attempt to justify in order to keep our beliefs going.
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The Art of Conversation
- Twelve Golden Rules
- By: Josephine Turck Baker
- Narrated by: Andrew Morantz
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules is a timeless classic originally published in 1907.
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How to Keep Your Cool
- An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
- By: Seneca, James S. Romm - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In his essay On Anger, the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca argues that anger is the most destructive passion. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples, anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity.
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Self Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Calling for staunch individualism, "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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On the Conversion of the Sinner
- By: Blaise Pascal
- Narrated by: Alice Greendale
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Blaise Pascal describes the way in which a soul comes to repentance. It is a process of realization, self-abasement, and the understanding of grace. From this follows gratitude and the determination to serve and worship.
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook compiles Ralph Waldo Emerson's most important works: "The American Scholar", "The Divinity School Address", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet", and "Thoreau". The audiobook is expertly read by Daniel Adam Day. Published by American Renaissance Books.
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Common Sense
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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"Common Sense" was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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The Future of an Illusion
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Future of an Illusion is an audiobook written by Sigmund Freud in 1927. It describes his interpretation of religion's origins, development, psychoanalysis, and its future. Freud describes religion as an illusion, as one of the wishes that are the "fulfillments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind". This title remains a landmark work of the 20th century.
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The Allegory of the Cave
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This simplistic and ingenious allegory from one of the fathers of Western philosophy casts light on society’s naiveté and ignorance.
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We Sang Rock of Ages
- By: Frances Willard
- Narrated by: Christine Dylan
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this excerpt from her historically significant autobiography first published in 1889, American suffragette, educator, and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Frances Willard gives us a deeper understanding of the ethos of the woman’s temperance movement, as well as the day to day struggles and triumphs of the movement in the US at the time.
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The Praise of Folly
- By: Erasmus
- Narrated by: Joe Gomez
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The Praise of Folly is a hilarious satirical essay on various superstitions and irrational beliefs held by European society and the Roman Catholic Church at the time of Desiderius Erasmus. The narrator is Folly and her attendants include Philautia (Self Love), Kolakia (Flattery), Lethe (Forgetfulness), and Anoia (Imbecility).
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The Royal Sport
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a new edition of Jack London's classic chapter on surfing entitled "The Royal Sport", first published in his famous book called The Cruise of the Snark.
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My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Steve Kelly
- Length: 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Twain wrote this witty satire in response to a request by editors of the New York World to contribute a humorous essay describing his first lie. He used the opportunity for discussion on the nature of lying, including "the lie of silent assertion". He pointed out the difference between a spoken lie and any other, as well as the fact that we readily condemn a lie by an individual but rarely challenge the false assumptions on which entire nations and institutions base their existence.
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Patriotism and Poverty
- By: Daniel DeLeon
- Narrated by: Tom Burben
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel De Leon was an American Marxist journalist and editor, theoretician, political, and trade union organizer. De Leon was a leading figure in American socialism and credited as the originator in revolutionary industrial unionism. In "Patriotism and Poverty", a short piece published in The Daily People paper in July 1900, De Leon discusses these two factors in connection with the exploitation of the proletariat in the context of a capitalist state.
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Mental Telegraphy Again
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Steve Kelly
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Twain compiled some of his experiences and experiments with telepathy in a fascinating article titled ‘Mental Telegraphy.’ In the opening paragraph he states that what many consider to be mere accident or ‘curious coincidence’ is no more accidental than is the sending and receiving of a telegram. He believed that minds resonate with one another by transferring ideas and messages to and fro.
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The Consolation of Philosophy
- By: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Charged with treason under Theodoric the Great in sixth-century Rome, Boethius served one year's imprisonment, awaiting trial and eventual execution. During this time, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, which would go on to be one of the most popular philosophical works of all time, contributing much to medieval thought and influencing the likes of Dante and Chaucer, as well as Renaissance writers, such as Milton and Shakespeare.