The Oxford Book of Essays - Brossura

Gross, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019282970X ISBN 13: 9780192829702

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Riassunto

The essay is one of the richest of all literary forms and it is used for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. Containing 140 essays by 120 British and American writers, this collection provides a selection of writings by such writers as Addison, Steele, Hazlitt, Dickens, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, James Thurber, Graham Greene, and Clive James. The anthology touches on topics as diverse as anger, pleasure, Gandhi, wasps, size, Beethoven, potato crisps, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey.

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L'autore:

John Gross is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1973) and editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983) and The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (2006), among other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 019282970X
• ISBN 13: 9780192829702
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704