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The Norton Book of Personal Essays Hardback - 1997

by Joseph Epstein (Editor)

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In this anthology of twentieth-century essays, some of our most-admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--various opinions. Topics range from Tangier to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations we bring to travel to the athletics of the table. The essays are selected and introduced by Joseph Epstein, himself a leading contemporary practitioner of the form. Most prominent in each essay is the distinctive style of the essayist; style, as Epstein points out in his introduction, is not only what keeps literature alive but also a personal way of looking at the world.

Blending the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising, The Norton Book of Personal Essays offers a basketful of delights sure to find a permanent place on readers' shelves. Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, M. F. K. Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Oliver Sacks, H. L. Mencken, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor are among the contributors to this volume. The chief principle of selection has been the pleasure that essays, operating at their highest power, always give.

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  • Title The Norton Book of Personal Essays
  • Author Joseph Epstein (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1997-03
  • ISBN 9780393036541 / 0393036545
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects American essays - 20th century, English essays - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96026975
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.508

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