The Norton book of personal essays
Item details
- ISBN: 0393036545
- ISBN: 9780393036541
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Physical Description:
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477 p. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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