Essays audiobooks
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. ChestertonIn this collection, Chesterton the master essayist – and master discursionist – moves easily from the mirthful to the magnificent, observing that poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese, that Futurists don’t know a damn thing, and that England is the only place you can find Weather. He has us watch a neighbor’s house being buil..
George Bernard Shaw
by G. K. ChestertonA typical biography by Chesterton about his personal friend and philosophical opponent Georges Bernard Shaw, whom he studies as a critic and a dramatist. Unfortunately this book was written in 1909, when Shaw still had not written two of his most important plays: Pygmalion and The Apple Cart. Chesterton understood Shaw as a sort of secular Pur..
A Utopia of Usurers
by G. K. ChestertonUtopia of Usurers is Chesterton at his energetic and boisterous best, taking on the economic and cultural apostles of modern industrial capitalism. Utopia is a collection of articles written from 1913–1915 for the Daily Herald, a Socialist paper which allowed Chesterton to attack Socialism as vehemently as they assumed he would attack capitalism. W..
A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. ChestertonA Miscellany of Men is a collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It discusses everyday and contemporary topics of 20th century Europe.Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. Wit..
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith WhartonFighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is composed, in part, from magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, including her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. "Four of the articles originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine" in 1915...
Cynic Looks At Life
by Ambrose BierceA collection of essays in which Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, including the death penalty, emancipated women, immortality, civilisation and more."The question "Does civilization civilize?" is a fine example of petitio principii, and decides itself in the affirmative; for civilization must needs do that from the doing of..
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
by David HumeDialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agr..
Emerson Essays, First Series
by Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across ..