The Norton Book of Personal Essays
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393036545
ISBN13:9780393036541
Release Date:March 1997
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:480 Pages
Weight:1.62 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The book I purchased was timely delivered. The quality of the book was as described. Excellent condition. The price was great!
Good essays for people who want to learn how to write a good essay.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
It is a required textbook for my essay course in my college. It has various subjects and greatly help me to understand how to draft different types of essays. No matte you are an English learner or not, it is a great read too, even if you only want to enjoy some good readings.
A master of the Personal Essay edits an excellent Anthology
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Joseph Epstein is a master of the personal essay. His books on 'Envy' and 'Friendship' are extended exercises in this form. I just today read another masterful essay of his, this one on 'Turning Seventy'. For the Norton Anthology he writes a preface on the Personal Essay as a means of discovery. He chooses about fifty essays from many of those most closely identified with the form from Mark Twain , Edmund Wilson, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Anne Dillard, Joan Didion, A.B. Leibling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amy Tan, and many others. Epstein also includes an amusing essay of his own ' I love a Gershwin Tune'. There is a lot of pleasurable reading in this excellent anthology.
World-class reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
If this weren't so heavy, I would carry it everywhere. Jam-packed with brilliant, insightful writing. I defy anyone to read Mark Twain's ``Italian Without a Master'' (the first essay in this compilation) and NOT laugh out loud. David Sedaris's essays, much as I love them, are a pale imitation of this Twain masterpiece.
A Great collection of "Personal Essays"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Joseph Epstein is an intersting author who has taken the art of the Personal Essay to a higher Realm. In this book, he has chosen a variety of authors who have similarly treated this art form, and presents a delightful collection of the same. An enjoyable read for people who enjoy good literary style. Included authors include Twain, Beerbohm, Woolf, Parker, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Connolly, Greene, Capote, Baldwin, Naipaul, Tan, etc.. Try it out!
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