| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
477 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
Personal essay : a form of discovery / Joseph Epstein -- Italian without a master / Mark Twain -- Something defeasible / Max Beerbohm -- Joseph Conrad / Bertrand Russell -- Chance meeting / Willa Cather -- Dream / Winston Churchill -- Reflections on journalism / H. L. Mencken -- Leslie Stephen / Virginia Woolf -- Visit to a godmother / Rebecca West -- St. Augustine and the bullfight / Katherine Anne Porter -- Middle or blue periond / Dorothy Parker -- Preface to Persius / Edmund Wilson -- Sleeping and waking / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- What are you doing in my dreams? / Dawn Powell -- Once more to the lake / E. B. White -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- In quest of beer / Frank O'Connor -- Revisiting Greece / Cyril Connolly -- Moon under water / George Orwell -- Good appetite / A. J. Liebling -- Chic- English, French, and American / Nancy Mitford -- Lost childhood / Graham Greene -- Stranger / Emily Hahn -- Angry winter / Loren Eiseley -- Flaw / M. F. K. Fisher -- Little store / Eudora Welty. |
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Author's mail / Barbara Tuchman -- Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas -- Living with music / Ralph Ellison -- My father / Doris Lessing -- Jury duty / William Zinsser -- Tangier / Truman Capote -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills -- King of the birds / Flannery O'Connor -- Lesson of the master / Cynthia Ozick -- Cops and writers / Jean Hollander -- Vanishing act / Dan Jacobson -- Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein -- Quintana / John Gregory Dunne -- In the middle of the journey / V. S. Naipaul -- Bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein -- Bey / Bruce Chatwin -- Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose -- Ron her son / Nancy Mairs -- Going home again / Richard Rodriguez -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- Inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders -- Grown men / Barry Lopez -- Oyez a Beaumont / Vicki Hearne -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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English essays -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
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| ISBN |
0393036545 |
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