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Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton [Dover Thrift Editions: Literary
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486440826
ISBN-13
9780486440828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127377239
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great English Essays : from Bacon to Chesterton
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Literary Collections
Book Series
Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-040288
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
824.008
Table Of Content
Francis Bacon Of Love Of Cunning Of Ambition Of Gardens Thomas Fuller The Good Schoolmaster Owen Feltham On Dreams Abraham Cowley Of Myself Jonathan Swift A Meditation on a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden The Tory Fox-Hunter Meditations in Westminster Abbey Richard Steele Jack Lizard Recollections of Childhood Samuel Johnson Dick Minim the Critic Spring Sir Joshua Reynolds Art Connoisseurs Oliver Goldsmith The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture National Prejudice James Boswell Passionate Love Parents and Their Children Charles Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People The Superannuated Man Old China William Hazlitt On Familiar Style On Going a Journey Leigh Hunt A Few Thoughts on Sleep Getting Up on Cold Mornings William Makepeace Thackeray Tunbridge Toys Charles Dickens Lying Awake Anthony Trollope A Walk in a Wood John Ruskin The Clouds Are There John Addington Symonds Personal Style W. H. Hudson Her Own Village Dandy: A Story of a Dog Alice Meynell Fellow Travellers with a Bird The Unready Richard Jefferies The July Grass Augustine Birrell Book-Buying Robert Louis Stevenson Notes on the Movements of Young Children George Bernard Shaw On Pleasure Bent G. K. Chesterton A Defence of Skeletons A Defence of Nonsense Twelve Men Virginia Woolf Hours in a Library D. H. Lawrence Adolf
Synopsis
Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Included are Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden," Swift's "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," plus compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and others., Essays spanning four centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Included are such classics as Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden," Swift's "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," as well as compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and other noted authors., Essays spanning four centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Includes works by Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Woolf, Shaw, and others., This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood. Included among the literary offerings are "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden" by Joseph Addison, "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," as well as compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and other noted authors. The works are presented chronologically and original publication dates are given where available.
LC Classification Number
PR1363.G74 2005
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