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The Art of the personal essay : an anthology from the classical era to the present / selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.

Summary:

More than 75 essays trace the development of the literary form from classical examples to contemporary English and American writers.

Record details

  • ISBN: 038542339X
  • ISBN: 9780385423397
  • ISBN: 0385422989
  • ISBN: 9780385422987
  • Physical Description: liv, 777 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st Anchor books pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1995, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-777).
Formatted Contents Note:
Seneca -- Plutarch -- Sei Shonagon -- Kenko -- Ou-Yang Hsiu -- Michel de Montaigne -- Abraham Cowley -- Addison & Steele -- Samuel Johnson -- Maria Edgeworth -- Charles Lamb -- William Hazlitt -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Max Beerbohm -- G.K. Chesterton -- Virginia Woolf -- George Orwell -- Ivan Turgenev -- Lu Hsun -- Junichiro Tanizaki -- Walter Benjamin -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Hubert Butler -- E.M. Cioran -- Roland Barthes -- Natalia Ginzburg -- Carlos Fuentes -- Wole Soyinka -- Sara Suleri -- Henry David Thoreau -- H.L. Mencken -- Robert Benchley -- James Thurber -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- E.B. White -- M.F.K. Fisher -- Mary McCarthy -- Seymour Krim -- James Baldwin -- Gore Vidal -- Adrienne Rich -- Edward Hoagland -- Wendell Berry -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- Richard Selzer -- Phillip Lopate -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Gayle Pemberton -- Richard Rodriguez.
Subject:
Essays.
Essays > Translations into English.
Essays.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Essays.
Translations.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library PN 6141 .A78 1995 259986 Stacks Available -