The Norton Book of Personal Essays
by Joseph Epstein (Editor)
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"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 show more 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. show lessTags
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I can only assume that the essays I didn't read in this collection are as good as the ones I did, so I'll give it 4 stars. This is a Norton anthology, though, which means it's just too long to be read in its entirety. I tried skipping around, then realized I was mostly just skipping. Ah, well.
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Joseph Epstein is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and Friendship, as well as the short story collections. The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and Frozen in Time, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, and other magazines. In 2003 he was show more awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush along with John Updike, Hal Holbrook, and Robert Ballard. A longtime teacher of English at Northwestern University, he lives in Evanston, Illinois. show less
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- 1997
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