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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 collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.
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John Gross is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969) and editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983), among other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
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"This is a collection that succeeds in demonstrating the marvelous variety of the genre."--The Christian Science Monitor
"A distinguished miscellany."--The Chicago Tribune
"Most of the essays are very good indeed....A seductive anthology."--The Economist
John Gross is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969) and editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983), among other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
"This is a collection that succeeds in demonstrating the marvelous variety of the genre."--The Christian Science Monitor
"A distinguished miscellany."--The Chicago Tribune
"Most of the essays are very good indeed....A seductive anthology."--The Economist
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 019288106X
- ISBN 13 9780192881069
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages704
- EditorGross John
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