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The Oxford Book of Essays
John Gross
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Description for The Oxford Book of Essays
Paperback. The essay is one of the richest, most imaginative, and most eloquent literary form. This anthology contains some 140 essays by all the leading exponents of the genre. Editor(s): Gross, John. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 508.
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin ... Read more
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199556557
SKU
V9780199556557
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About John Gross
John Gross is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1973) and editor of The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983) and The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (2006), among other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
Reviews for The Oxford Book of Essays
A vast, wonderful company.
Michael Foot,The Observer,
From the thousands of essays and pieces available nobody would choose the same...but I doubt if anyone would have chosen better
Frank Kermode,Independent on Sunday
The selection has nothing in it that is not of the top class...John Gross has the shrewdest possible eye for what practitioners in the ... Read more
Michael Foot,The Observer,
From the thousands of essays and pieces available nobody would choose the same...but I doubt if anyone would have chosen better
Frank Kermode,Independent on Sunday
The selection has nothing in it that is not of the top class...John Gross has the shrewdest possible eye for what practitioners in the ... Read more