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The Oxford Book of Essays

John Gross

出版	William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, 1992-10
主題	Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN	15695642809781569564288
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=105APgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Now in a more readable format, this sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. The authors Gross has gathered 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. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collectionthat is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.