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The Great English and American Essays: 59 essays by 47 masters
The Great English and American Essays 59 essays by 47 masters Author:Edmund Fuller (Editor with Introduction) 3rd Printing, 1970 — Edmund Fuller is the distinguished critic, essayist, editor, and and anthologist. "The Essay," he says in his introduction, "is an intimate form and appropriately a leisurely on. Style, the image of personality, finds brilliant display in it. No prose form is more exactly written by its masters: it is a medium for connoiss... more »eurs." In this anthology he has gathered the works of such masterly practitioners of the forms as Bacon, Beerbohm, Chesterton, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Mencken, Orwell, Poe, Pritchett, and Thoreau.« less