Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film. Each of the five sections contains a detailed critical introduction to each form, brief biographies of the authors, and a clear, concise editorial apparatus. Updated and revised throughout, the new Fourth Edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Alice Walker; fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anton Chekov, James Joyce, Katherine...
Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four...
'A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition point in life that has gotten surprisingly little literary attention: retirement. . . . The quiet testimony of a man whose ongoing writing, editing, reading, gardening, traveling and ceaseless quest for self-knowledge make him much less retired than many people half his age.' -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
'A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition point in life that has gotten surprisingly little literary attention: retirement. . . . The qui...
Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his unforgettable, entertaining Elia essays in the "London Magazine" in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823. Inventing the persona of Elia allowed Lamb to be shockingly honest and to gain a playful distance for self-examination. The resulting essays touch upon a wide range of compelling subjects from the deliciously humorous Dissertation upon Roast Pig to the poignantly reflective New Year's Eve. Yet collectively they also comprise a fascinating...
Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his unforgettable, entertaining Elia essays in the "London ...
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, "Essayists on the Essay" is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied sourcebook for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present many of which have not previously been anthologized or translated as well as a detailed bibliographical and thematic guide to hundreds of additional works about the...
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, "Essayists on the Essay" is a path-breaking work that is nothing l...
Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writing--your persona--is the byproduct of numerous decisions you make about what to say and how to say it. Though any single word or phrase or sentence might make little difference within the scope of an entire essay or book, collectively they create an impression of who you are or seem to be--an impression that's sure to influence how readers respond to your work. Thus it's essential to take charge of how you come across on the page, to craft an appropriate persona for whatever you're writing,...
Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writing--your persona--is the byproduct of numerous ...
