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Favourite Essays: An Anthology

Read by Neville Jason

Favourite Essays: An Anthology

Favourite Essays: An Anthology

Read by Neville Jason

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Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative; the topics vary from starvation in Ireland, fine China, the extension of railways in the Lake District and the tombs in Westminster Abbey. A little like after-dinner monologues, they are passing thoughts expressed as journalism. Neville Jason reads with urbane clarity.

Contents and tracklist

Michel de Montaigne: Of Idleness
Work length3:50
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Michel de Montaigne: Of Slow Speech
Work length6:35
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Michel de Montaigne: That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness until After Our Death
Work length8:00
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Francis Bacon: Of Truth
Work length6:26
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Francis Bacon: Of Riches
Work length8:37
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Francis Bacon: Of Wisdom
Work length3:37
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Work length23:40
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
A Modest Proposal
Track length8:20
– I have already computed the charge…
Track length8:19
– Many other advantages might be enumerated…
Track length7:01
Joseph Addison: The Tombs in Westminster Abbey
Work length8:40
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Richard Steele: – It is an inexpressible pleasure…
Work length13:08
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
– It is an inexpressible pleasure…
Track length7:35
– The day of people of fashion…
Track length5:33
Samuel Johnson: Solitude not eligible
Work length11:50
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Solitude not eligible
Track length6:13
– Others consider solitude as the parent of philosophy…
Track length5:37
Samuel Johnson: Good Humour
Work length10:23
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Good Humour
Track length6:02
– There are many whose vanity…
Track length4:21
Oliver Goldsmith: On National Prejudices
Work length8:53
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
On National Prejudices
Track length4:51
– Among all the famous sayings…
Track length4:02
David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
Work length15:09
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
Track length7:24
– It is also usual to compare one man with another…
Track length7:45
Charles Lamb: Dream Children – A Reverie
Work length11:43
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Dream Children – A Reverie
Track length6:22
– Here John slyly deposited…
Track length5:21
Charles Lamb: Old China
Work length15:36
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Old China
Track length8:04
– You are too proud to see a play anywhere…
Track length7:32
William Hazlitt: On Going a Journey
Work length29:06
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
On Going a Journey
Track length6:56
– Now I never quarrel with myself…
Track length7:57
– One may take one's choice…
Track length8:20
– To return to the question I have quitted…
Track length5:53
Leigh Hunt: A 'Now'
Work length12:22
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
A 'Now'
Track length6:03
– Now sounds in general are dull…
Track length6:19
Percy Bysshe Shelley: On Life
Work length13:33
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
On Life
Track length6:59
– What follows from the admission?
Track length6:34
Thomas Carlyle: Midas
Work length15:37
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Midas
Track length6:54
Midas (cont.): Why dwell on this aspect of the matter?
Track length8:43
William Makepeace Thackeray: Ogres
Work length22:07
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Ogres
Track length7:30
– Yes; they were conquered in the end…
Track length7:03
– I say we all of us know ogres.
Track length7:34
Charles Dickens: The First of May
Work length21:38
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The First of May
Track length7:45
– The romance of spring…
Track length6:46
– Granted. We are ready to acknowledge…
Track length7:07
John Ruskin: The Extension of the Railways in the Lake District
Work length14:53
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
The Extension of the Railways in the Lake District
Track length6:09
– The arguments in favour of the new railway…
Track length8:44
G.K. Chesterton: On Lying in Bed
Work length9:33
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
On Lying in Bed
Track length4:49
– The tone now commonly taken…
Track length4:44
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