Essays of the Masters
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815410972 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 474 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Essays of the Masters" according to R. R, Castillo. this is an excellent collection of important essays from leading writers of the past two centuries--not all of them literary, but all of the highest quality. this is a very fine collection--A+!
Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats.. This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literaturewriters best known for novels, plays, and poemsand how they put the essay to their personal use
. Charles Neider (1915-2001) edited Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict, Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance, Man Against Nature: Firsthand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration, and Great Shipwrecks and Castaways: Firsthand Accounts of Disasters at S
. Lots of big shots discuss everything from Christmas to bullfighting, with a leaning toward literary matters. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Debuting in 1956, this volume contains 42 essays by the literati of American, English, and European letters, dating back to Melville and his buddy Hawthorne, Dickens, and Goethe, to Conrad, Flaubert, Dostoevski, Poe, Twain, and Kipling, on up to Woolf and Hemingway