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Kiadó: | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
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Kiadás helye: | New York |
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Kötés típusa: | Fűzött keménykötés |
Oldalszám: | 460 oldal |
Sorozatcím: | Revised and Enlarged |
Kötetszám: | |
Nyelv: | Angol |
Méret: | 19 cm x 13 cm |
ISBN: | |
How this book was made | |
A note to teachers | |
A word to students | |
Introduction | |
The essay defined | |
The essay further befined | |
Characteristics of the essay | |
The essay resembles conversation | |
The subject matter of the essay | |
History of the essay | |
Relaltion of the essay to other literary forms | |
Types of essays | |
An apology for idlers - Robert Louis Stevenson | 3 |
Aes triplex - Robert Louis Stevenson | 15 |
Traits of Indian character - Washington Irving | 33 |
A dissertation uppon roast pig - Charles Lamb | 46 |
Saint Joan of arc - Mark Twain | 56 |
On unanswering letters - Christopher Morley | 68 |
What men live by - Christopher Morley | 77 |
On doors - Christopher Morley | 77 |
A kitten - Agnes Repplier | 80 |
Oxford as I see it - Stephen Leacock | 91 |
A, B, and C - The human element in mathematics - Stephen Leacok | 103 |
The new freedom - Woodrow Wilson | 109 |
Every man's natural desire to be somebody else - Samuel MacChord Crothers | 120 |
Independence - Rudyard Kipling | 133 |
The magic ring - Kenneth Grahame | 145 |
Boating - Oliver Wendell Holmes | 158 |
American and brition - John Galsworthy | 166 |
My silent servants - John Kendrick Bangs | 179 |
Where I lived and what I lived for - Henry David Thoreau | 189 |
The art of procuring pleasant dreams - Benjamin Franklin | 206 |
Mary White - William Allen White | 213 |
Self-reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson | 220 |
The Great American Game - William Lyon Phelps | 233 |
The mississippi - Lafcadio Hearn | 243 |
New orleans - Lafcadio Hearn | 247 |
The romantic in the rain - G. K. Chesterton | 251 |
On Running after one's hat - G. K. Chesterton | 255 |
Transleting literature into life - Arnold Bennett | 260 |
Possessions- E. V. Lucas | 266 |
Telephonics - E. V. Lucas | 270 |
Landfalls and departures - Joseph Conrad | 281 |
Of riches - Francis Bacon | 292 |
Of studies - Francis Bacon | 298 |
Of friendship - Francis bacon | 300 |
Of truth - Francis Bacon | 307 |
The fifty-first dragon - Heywood Broun | 310 |
I entertain an agent unawares - David Grayson | 321 |
On marking camp - Stewart Edward White | 331 |
On carrying a cane - Robert Cortes Holliday | 343 |
To be read only by serious stupid persons - Charles S. Brooks | 350 |
The death of an old dog - William Henry Hudson | 360 |
Three days to see - Helen Adams Keller | 368 |
Romance - Simeon Strunsky | 382 |
My mother - Lizette Woodworth Reese | 388 |
The jungle sluggard - William Beebe | 397 |
Epigrams - Jonathan Swift | 412 |
I get a colt to break in - Lincoln Steffens | 418 |
On war - George Santayana | 429 |
Column left - Stuart Chase | 433 |
Dwight W. Morrow - Walter Lippmann | 444 |
Books of essays for wider reading | 450 |
Acknowledgments |
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