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- catalog abstract ""The Norton Book of Personal Essays collects approximately fifty of the finest personal essays of the twentieth century, selected and introduced by Joseph Epstein, the man often hailed as the "premier essayist of our time."" "In them, some of our most admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and - above all - varied opinions. Topics range from Tangiers to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations we bring to travel to the athletics of the table. Most prominent in each essay is the distinctive style of the essayist; style, as Epstein points out in his introduction, not only is what keeps literature alive but also is a personal way of looking at the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10231715.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""The Norton Book of Personal Essays collects approximately fifty of the finest personal essays of the twentieth century, selected and introduced by Joseph Epstein, the man often hailed as the "premier essayist of our time."" "In them, some of our most admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and - above all - varied opinions. Topics range from Tangiers to a lake in Maine, from racial conflict to sky diving, from the expectations we bring to travel to the athletics of the table. Most prominent in each essay is the distinctive style of the essayist; style, as Epstein points out in his introduction, not only is what keeps literature alive but also is a personal way of looking at the world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Author's mail / Barbara Tuchman -- Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas -- Living with music / Ralph Ellison -- My father / Doris Lessing -- Jury duty / William Zinsser -- Tangier / Truman Capote -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills -- King of the birds / Flannery O'Connor -- Lesson of the master / Cynthia Ozick -- Cops and writers / Jean Hollander -- Vanishing act / Dan Jacobson -- Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein -- Quintana / John Gregory Dunne -- In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul -- Bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein -- Bey / Bruce Chatwin -- Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose -- Ron her son / Nancy Mairs -- Going home again / Richard Rodriguez -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- Inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders -- Grown men / Barry Lopez -- Oyez à Beaumont / Vicki Hearne -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "477 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393036545".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
- catalog subject "814/.508 20".
- catalog subject "American essays 20th century.".
- catalog subject "English essays 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS688 .N67 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Author's mail / Barbara Tuchman -- Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas -- Living with music / Ralph Ellison -- My father / Doris Lessing -- Jury duty / William Zinsser -- Tangier / Truman Capote -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills -- King of the birds / Flannery O'Connor -- Lesson of the master / Cynthia Ozick -- Cops and writers / Jean Hollander -- Vanishing act / Dan Jacobson -- Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein -- Quintana / John Gregory Dunne -- In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul -- Bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein -- Bey / Bruce Chatwin -- Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose -- Ron her son / Nancy Mairs -- Going home again / Richard Rodriguez -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- Inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders -- Grown men / Barry Lopez -- Oyez à Beaumont / Vicki Hearne -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The Norton book of personal essays / edited by Joseph Epstein.".
- catalog type "text".