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The Oxford Book of Essays

Door John Gross

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#348565-VC43
Titel
The Oxford Book of Essays
Auteur
Gross, John (editor)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0199556555
ISBN13
9780199556557
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The essay is one of the richest, most imaginative, and most eloquent literary form. This anthology contains some 140 essays by all the leading exponents of the genre.

The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Frankli... (Lees verder)n to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Pagina's
680
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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