Essays of the Masters
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2000
480 pages
978-1-4616-6096-5 (ISBN)
Description
This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats.
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...this volume contains 42 essays by the literati of American, English, and European letters, dating back to Melville, and his buddy Hawthorne, Dickens, and Goethe, to Conrad, Flaubert, Dostoevski, Poe, Twain, and Kipling, on up to Woolf and Hemingway. Lots of big shots discuss everything from Christmas to bullfighting, with a leaning toward literary matters. * Library Journal * ...this volume contains 42 essays by the literati of American, English, and European letters, dating back to Melville, and his buddy Hawthorne, Dickens, and Goethe, to Conrad, Flaubert, Dostoevski, Poe, Twain, and Kipling, on up to Woolf and Hemingway. Lots of big shots discuss everything from Christmas to bullfighting, with a leaning toward literary matters. * Library Journal * ...this volume contains 42 essays by the literati of American, English, and European letters, dating back to Melville, and his buddy Hawthorne, Dickens, and Goethe, to Conrad, Flaubert, Dostoevski, Poe, Twain, and Kipling, on up to Woolf and Hemingway. Lots of big shots discuss everything from Christmas to bullfighting, with a leaning toward literary matters. * Library Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
File size
1,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6096-5 (9781461660965)
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Charles Neider
Essays of the Masters
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08/2000
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
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Charles Neider (1915-2001) edited Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict, Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance, Man Against Nature: Firsthand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration, and Great Shipwrecks and Castaways: Firsthand Accounts of Disasters at Sea.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- My Belief
- The Physiology of Marriage
- Christmas Day at Sea
- New York
- Something about Lying
- Tradition and the Individual Talent
- On Receiving the Nobel Prize
- Over Strand and Field
- What I Believe
- On Nunneries
- The Evolution of the Theater
- Shakespeare ad Infinitum
- The Profitable Reading of Fiction
- Outside Glimpses of English Poverty
- London and the English
- Death in the Afternoon
- Ivan Turgénieff
- The Aeroplanes at Brescia
- Chicago
- Market Day
- Chrysanthemums
- Anna Karenina
- A Summing Up
- Hawthorne and His Mosses
- Tangiers
- Eleonora Duse: Actress Supreme
- Philosophy of Furniture
- Waking Dreams
- Manhattan: The Great American Desert
- Chesterton on Shaw
- Ferrero and the Decline of Civilisations
- The Old Pacific Capital
- East and West
- On Being Found Out
- On Art
- Hamlet and Don Quixote
- Traveling with a Reformer
- Large and Small Towns
- The Bible as Poetry
- Impressions of America
- How Should One Read a Book?
- Magic
