United States Essays

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    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-19
    • Language: English
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    • Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....

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    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-17
    • Language: English
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    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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    • By: Henry Miller
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • In his great triptych The Millennium, Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur....

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    • By: Charles Bukowski
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....

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    • Stories and Essays
    • By: Tim McLoughlin
    • Narrated by: Tim McLoughlin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Tim McLoughlin draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance....

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    • Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Campbell Scott
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Here are Hemingway's most sensational dispatches, the behind-the-scenes stories that became For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises....

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    • Selected Essays
    • By: Norman Mailer
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 22 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As America's foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life - on the airwaves and in print - for more than sixty years....

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    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures....

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    • A Curious Account of Native People in North America
    • By: Thomas King
    • Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America....

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    • By: Henry David Thoreau
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

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    • By: Gore Vidal, Jay Parini - editor
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 19 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job....

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