Self Help Essays

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    • By: Samuel Smiles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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    • Essays
    • By: Samantha Irby
    • Narrated by: Samantha Irby
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
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    • A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and best-selling Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children in white, small-town America, health food and skincare obsessions, money trouble, and more....

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    • The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
    • By: John Waters
    • Narrated by: John Waters
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 536 ratings
    • No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....

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    • Pressing Ahead (or Not) When Your World Turns Upside Down (Self-Help Essays)
    • By: Martin Meadows
    • Narrated by: John Gagnepain
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • As much as we’d like to avoid suffering in life, all of us will occasionally face earth-shattering hardships. You might be dealing with one now, or perhaps your friend or a loved one is, or maybe you’d just like to prepare yourself for when one inevitably occurs in your life....

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    • By: Francis Bacon
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617....

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    • Essays, Meditations, and Poetry to Help You Heal Heartbreak, Embrace Change, and Love Yourself
    • By: Danielle Bertoli
    • Narrated by: Danielle Bertoli
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Struck Inside Out, writer and blogger Danielle Bertoli delivers lessons on cultivating daily inspiration, overcoming heartbreak, and loving yourself unconditionally....

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    • By: Wallace Shawn
    • Narrated by: Wallace Shawn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Shawn grasps contradictions, even when unpleasant, and challenges us to look, as he does, at our own behavior in a more honest light....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell, Bernard Crick
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art....

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    • By: Jerome K. Jerome
    • Narrated by: Roy Macready
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • Jerome K. Jerome is of course known for the hilarious adventures of “Three Men in a Boat”. He also wrote many short stories and essays that have all the wit, whimsy, and wisdom of his more famous work....

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