Essays - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
Essays book 2 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 2 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became famous for his apparent...
Eureka: A Prose Poem - Edgar Allan Poe
Eureka: A Prose Poem - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Essays
Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are". In it, Poe discusses man's relationship to God and the universe or, as he offers at the beginning: "I design to speak...
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Self-Help / Essays / Ancient
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is a collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches that give an insight into Roman and Greek life. Extremely...
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Early Modern / Essays / Letters
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would not publish any of Benjamin's works, fifteen-year-old Benjamin sent letters to The New England Courant under...
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless...
My First Book - Various
My First Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Memoirs / Essays
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and humour of their experiences in writing...
Essays book 3 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 3 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became famous for his apparent...
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of...
The Essays of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
The Essays of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: Essays
Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one fact is certainly true when dealing with Sir Francis Bacon.The youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Francis was...
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not...
Nature (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays
First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emersonβs literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking why his generation βshould not also enjoy an original relation to the universe,β Emerson argues that βMan is...
Oxford Book of American Essays - Various
Oxford Book of American Essays - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of...
The Three Great Virtues - Three Essays by Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Three Great Virtues - Three Essays by Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays
Faith Hope and Charity ...... In the Language of Emerson these translate as: Self - Reliance, Love, and Friendship. (summary by Robert Scott)...
They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2) - Mary ANTIN
They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2) - Mary ANTIN
- Author: Mary ANTIN
- Genre: Essays
In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions: First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigration? Second: A question of fact: What is the nature of our present immigration? Third: A question of...
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
- Author: George Washburn Smalley
- Genre: Memoirs / Essays
βThese Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribuneβ¦. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met,...
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - William Hazlitt
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - William Hazlitt
- Author: William Hazlitt
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Essays
This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character, while also weighing theme, mood, structure and poetics. In it, 19th-century critic William Hazlitt unveils Shakespeare's genius in creating and infusing...
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Humor / Essays
Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. They were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions...
