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Great American Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain
Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman, Walter Covell, Jim Killavey
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 Hear some of the greatest American essays ever written! This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs.

It includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"; Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and "Civil Disobedience"; Mark Twain's "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey"; Benjamin's Franklin's "Reply to a Begging Letter"; and Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis".

You'll also hear "The Union and Its New Constitution" by Alexander Hamilton; "The Art of Publicity" by P. T. Barnum; John Burroughs's "A Life of Fear"; Bradford Torry's "A Short Month"; Eugene Field's "Other People's Dogs"; and James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln".

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monotone and boring narration

I was looking forward to listening to this book, but cannot make it through even 20 minutes worth

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May be good but cant get over the reader

This could be a good book but its reader is too mono-tone to stick with the book long enough to enjoy the essays. Only a touch more inflection would make a world of difference.

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many if the Greatest Essays I'd all time.

great selection. I read most of these essays studying Political Science. and a fee I never heard/read before.

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