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Eight modern essayists / [edited by] William Smart.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays--20th century.
- English essays.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 299 pages : portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [1985]
- Contents:
- 1 Virginia Woolf
- The Death of the Moth
- Shakespeare's Sister
- The Shadow across the Page
- Professions for Women
- A Sketch of the Past
- 2 George Orwell
- Shooting an Elephant
- A Hanging
- Marrakech
- Politics and the English Language
- Why I Write
- 3 E.B. White
- Once More to the Lake
- Death of a Pig
- On a Florida Key
- The Ring of Time
- Walden
- 4 James Baldwin
- Notes of a Native Son
- Stranger in the Village
- Equal in Paris
- Here Be Dangerous
- 5 Joan Didion
- Goodbye to All That
- On Going Home
- On Morality
- John Wayne: A Love Song
- 6 James McConkey
- A Night Stand
- The Bullfrog Pond
- Passages Early and Late
- A Family Record
- 7 Cynthia Ozick
- Washington Square, 1946
- The Seam of the Snail
- A Drugstore in Winter
- On Permission to Write
- 8 Alice Walker
- Brothers and Sisters
- Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
- In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
- Journey to Nine Miles
- A Sampler of Essays from Previous Editions
- A Relic / Max Beerbohm Beerbohm, Max
- My Wood / E. M. Forster Forster, E. M.
- Adolf / D. H. Lawrence Lawrence, D. H.
- The Dog That Bit People / James Thurber Thurber, James
- The Old Stone House / Edmund Wilson Wilson, Edmund
- Miami Beach / Norman Mailer Mailer, Norman
- On Natural Death / Lewis Thomas Thomas, Lewis
- The Boy Scout Handbook / Paul Fussell Fussell, Paul
- Getting Tired / Carol Bly Bly, Carol
- The Courage of Turtles / Edward Hoagland Hoagland, Edward.
- Notes:
- Forty-two essays by Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, E.B. White, Lewis Thomas, James Baldwin, Edward Hoagland, Joan Didion, and Alice Walker.
- ISBN:
- 0312239785
- OCLC:
- 12226581
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