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The Oxford Book of Essays John Gross

The Oxford Book of Essays By John Gross

The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross


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Summary

These 140 essays by 120 writers ponder the important human questions but also consider the more trivial, mundane and amusing aspects of existence. The collection, which includes a significant number of American writers, opens with Francis Bacon and closes with Clive James.

The Oxford Book of Essays Summary

The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross

This collection includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particular feature of the book is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.

About John Gross


About the Editor:
John Gross is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters and editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms. He has been editor of The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement and is theater critic for The Sunday Telegraph.

Table of Contents

Sir Francis Bacon; Sir Thomas Overbury; John Earle; Owen Felltham; Sir Thomas Browne; Thomas Fuller; Samuel Butler; Jeremy Taylor; Abraham Cowley; John Dryden; Jonathan Swift; Joseph Addison; Sir Richard Steele; Lord Chesterfield; Benjamin Franklin; Henry Fielding; Samuel Johnson; David Hume; Oliver Goldsmith; James Boswell; Charles Lamb; William Hazlitt; Leigh Hunt; Thomas De Quincey; Thomas Carlyle; Lord Macaulay; Sir Henry Taylor; John Henry Newman; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; John Stuart Mill; Charles Dickens; William Makepeace Thackeray; Anthony Trollope; Henry David Thoreau; James Anthony Froude; George Eliot; Matthew Arnold; T.H. Huxley; Walter Bagehot; Mark Rutherford; Sir Leslie Stephen; Samuel Butler; Mark Twain; Walter Pater; W.H. Hudson; Ambrose Bierce; William James; Henry James; Alice Meynell; Richard Jefferies; Robert Louis Stevenson; Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; Joseph Conrad; James G. Huneker; John Jay Chapman; George Santayana; Arthur Symons; Hilaire Belloc; Bertrand Russell; Sir Max Beerbohm; Sir Winston Churchill; G.K. Chesterton; Sir Desmond McCarthy; E.M. Forster; Lytton Strachey; H.L. Mencken; Rose Macaulay; Virginia Woolf; James Stephens; G.M. Young; D.H. Lawrence; Marianne Moore; T.S. Eliot; Sir Lewis Namier; Katherine Anne Porter; Rebecca West; Joseph Wood Krutch; J.B.S. Haldane; Aldous Huxley; James Thurber; J.B. Priestley; Robert Graves; Edmund Wilson; E.B. White; V.S. Pritchett; Cyril Connolly; George Orwell; Evelyn Waugh; Graham Greene; Lionel Trilling; Sir John Betjeman; Sir William Empson; Loren Eiseley; Jacques Barzun; Maurice Richardson; M.F.K. Fisher; Sir Isaiah Berlin; Lewis Thomas; Randall Jarrell; H.R. Trevor-Roper; Elizabeth Hardwick; Robert Warshow; Richard Cobb; Conor Cruise O'Brien; Pauline Kael; D.J. Enright; Philip Larkin; Reyner Banham; James Baldwin; Gore Vidal; Jan Morris; Dan Jacobson; P.J. Kavanagh; V.S. Naipaul; John Updike; Joan Didion; Joseph Epstein; Clive James.

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GOR001452441
9780192141859
0192141856
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
1991-06-30
703
N/A
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