Essays Collection, Vol. 01

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Peter Yearsley, Scotty Smith, Michele Fry, Paula Messina, Atul Sharma, Ben Tucker, Winnifred Assmann, KevinS, Larry Wilson, Bobpliley, Glenn Carruthers, Elsie Selwyn, Tatsu MJ, Christine Rottger

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 07 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passages in books where they have lain hidden for decades. Britannica defines an essay as "an analytic, interpretive, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subjects from a limited and often personal point of view." In short, an essay is neither fiction nor a short story, but a composition designed to educate/persuade more than entertain or inform, though essays sometimes do both, or neither. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC/DPL)