The Oxford Book of Essays |
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| Editor:
| Gross, John |
| Series title: | Oxford Books of Prose Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-284089-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2002 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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This sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire. The authors form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from George Eliot to George Bernard Shaw,...
More DescriptionThis sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire. The authors form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from George Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. It is a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.