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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover is out of print. This anthology contains some 140 essays by all the leading exponents of the genre.
Full Description
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.
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.
