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Essays of the masters.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 455 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rinehart, [1956]
- Contents:
- My belief / W.H. Auden
- The physiology of marriage / Honoré de Balzac
- Christmas day at sea / Joseph Conrad
- New York / Charles Dickens
- Something about lying / Fëdor Dostoevski
- Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot
- On receiving the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner
- Over strand and field / Gustave Flaubert
- What I believe / E.M. Forster
- On nunneries / Anatole France
- The evolution of the theater / Andre Gidé
- Shakespeare ad infinitum / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The profitable reading of fiction / Thomas Hardy
- Outside glimpses of English poverty / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- London and the English / Heinrich Heine
- Death in the afternoon / Ernest Hemingway
- Ivan Turgénieff / Henry James
- The aeroplanes at Brescia / Franz Kafka
- Chicago / Rudyard Kipling
- Market day / D.H. Lawrence
- Chrysanthemums / Maurice Maeterlinck
- Anna Karenina / Thomas Mann
- A summing up / W. Somerset Maugham
- Hawthorne and his mosses / Herman Melville
- Tangiers / Martin Andersen Nexö
- Eleonora Duse : actress supreme / Luigi Pirandello
- Philosophy of furniture / Edgar Allan Poe
- Waking dreams / Marcel Proust
- Manhattan : the great American desert / Jean-Paul Sartre
- Chesterton on Shaw / Bernard Shaw
- Ferrero and the decline of civilisations / Ignazio Silone
- The old Pacific capital / Robert Louis Stevenson
- East and West / Rabindranath Tagore
- On being found out / William Makepeace Thackeray
- On art / Leo Tolstoi
- Hamlet and Don Quixote / Ivan Turgenev
- Traveling with a reformer / Mark Twain
- Large and small towns / Miguel de Unamuno
- The Bible as poetry / Walt Whitman
- Impressions of America / Oscar Wilde
- How should one read a book? / Virginia Woolf
- Magic / William Butler Yeats.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Essays of the masters.
- OCLC:
- 1396593
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