| Description |
liv, 777 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [771]-777). |
| Contents |
On noise ; Asthma ; Scipio's villa ; Slaves / Seneca -- Consolation to his wife / Plutarch -- Hateful things / Sei Shonagon -- Essays in idleness (selections) / Kenko -- Pleasure boat studio / Ou-Yang Hsiu -- Of books ; Of a monstrous child ; Of some verses on Virgil / Michel de Montaigne -- Of greatness / Abraham Cowley -- Nicolini and the lions ; An hour or two sacred to sorrow ; Twenty-four hours in London ; Love-letters / Addison & Steele -- The boarding house ; The solitude of the country / Samuel Johnson -- An essay on the noble science of self-justification / Maria Edgeworth -- New Year's Eve ; A chapter on ears ; Dream children : a reverie ; The superannuated man / Charles Lamb -- On going a journey ; On the pleasure of hating ; The fight / William Hazlitt -- The lantern-bearers ; An apology for idlers ; On marriage / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Going out for a walk ; Laughter / Max Beerbohm -- A piece of chalk ; On running after one's hat / G.K. Chesterton -- Street haunting ; The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Such, such were the joys / George Orwell -- The execution of Tropmann / Ivan Turgenev -- This too is life ; Death / Lu Hsun -- In praise of shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki -- Unpacking my library ; Hashish in Marseilles / Walter Benjamin -- Blindness / Jorge Luis Borges -- Beside the nore ; Aunt Harriet / Hubert Butler -- Some blind alleys : a letter / E.M. Cioran -- Leaving the movie theater / Roland Barthes -- He and I / Natalia Ginzburg -- How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes -- Why do I fast? / Wole Soyinka -- Meatless days / Sara Suleri -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- On being an American / H.L. Mencken -- My face / Robert Benchley -- The secret life of James Thurber / James Thurber -- The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Once more to the lake ; The ring of time / E.B. White -- Once a tramp, always / M.F.K. Fisher -- My confession / Mary McCarthy -- For my brothers and sisters in the failure business / Seymour Krim -- Notes of a native son ; Alas, poor Richard / James Baldwin -- Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self / Gore Vidal -- Split at the root / Adrienne Rich -- The courage of turtles ; The threshold and the jolt of pain / Edward Hoagland -- An entrance to the woods / Wendell Berry -- Goodbye to all that ; In bed / Joan Didion -- Seeing / Annie Dillard -- The knife / Richard Selzer -- Against joie de vivre / Phillip Lopate -- Under the influence / Scott Russell Sanders -- Do he have your number, Mr. Jeffrey? / Gayle Pemberton -- Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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Essays -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
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Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
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| ISBN |
0385422989: US $30.00 (Can. $39.95) |
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