Essays of the Masters

By Alex Brown

Book Overview

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815410972
• ISBN13: 9780815410973
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"