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Essays
- Author
- Francis Bacon
- Narrator
- David Timson
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Literary essays
What to expect
Critics Review
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Audiobook of the Week ‘“What is Truth?” said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.’ So begin the Essays of the scientist and politician Sir Francis Bacon. Never out of print since they were published in 1625, they are witty, candid and often provocative (this is a man who is quoted as saying: ‘I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision’). My favourites include Of Studies (‘Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested’), Of Gardens (‘the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man’) and Of Friendship (‘a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love’). The actor and director David Timson, whose other audiobook triumphs include the complete Sherlock Holmes stories and Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, romps energetically through this timely tribute.
Christina Hardyment, The Times
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Details
- Author
- Francis Bacon
- Narrator
- David Timson
- Duration
- 6 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2022
- ISBN
- 9781781984024
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Literary essays
Synopsis
On 8 May 1373, 30-year-old Julian of Norwich, sick and near death, had a series of visions of Christ. In these 16 visions she learnt about God’s loving nature. God in Julian’s visions was not angry and wrathful. Instead, the three properties of God were presented as life, love and light, and all of His creation was good, including his servant, Man. In Julian’s version, Man is not to blame for his sin; instead it is something that he must experience and overcome in his spiritual journey with God. The version of Christian theology presented in Revelations of Divine Love – the first published book in English attributed to a woman – was highly liberal and incredibly progressive for its time. The book contains some of the most profound spiritual writing ever written and remains a perennial favourite among Christians.
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