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When Montaigne developed the essay in the sixteenth century, he could not have imagined the power and longevity of his creation. "He did not set up for a philosopher, wit, orator, or moralist," wrote Hazlitt, "but he became all these by merely daring to tell us whatever passed through his mind." Ever since, writers have seized upon his example, and for over four hundred years we have encountered astonishing insights and breathtaking language by following what has passed through their minds, as recounted in the essay. And now some of the finest essays of all time have been gathered together by John Gross, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, in an outstanding new anthology. Ranging from the early 1600s through the 1980s, this sweeping collection includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. Here is Eveleyn Waugh, providing tips on how to move in Well-Informed Circles ("Attribute all facts of common knowledge to personal information; for instance, do not say, 'What a wet week it has been,' but, 'They tell me at Greenwich they have registered the highest rainfall for six weeks'"); Ralph Waldo Emerson on conservatism and innovation; Ambrose Bierce on "the horror of the characteristic American custom of promiscuous, unsought, and unauthorized introductions"; Oscar Wilde on the critic as artist ("It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless"); Rose Macaulay on dinner parties; and James Baldwin, musing about what a remote Swiss village tells him about race in the wider world ("Joyce is right about history being a nightmare--but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them."). The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192141856
ISBN-13
9780192141859
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45813

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Book Title
Oxford Book of Essays
Author
John Gross
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Linguistics / General, Essays
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
704 Pages

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8.8in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
33.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pr1363.O9 1991
Table of Content
Includes essays by: Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Steele, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Hazlitt, Benjamin Franklin, Carlyle, Newman, Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Thoreau, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Mark Twain, W. H. Hudson, William James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Conrad, Santayana, Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, G. K. Chesterton, Lytton Strachey, Rose Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Rebecca West, J. B. S. Haldane, Aldous Huxley, James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, V. S. Pritchett, Cyril Connolly, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Lionel Trilling, Jan Morris, Richard Cobb, John Updike, Joan Didion, Clive James.
Copyright Date
1991
Selected by
Gross, John
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
90-034948
Dewey Decimal
824.008
Dewey Edition
20

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