by Charles Neider (Editor)
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.
Author Biography
Charles Neider (1915-2001) edited Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict, Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance, Man Against Nature: Firsthand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration, and Great Shipwrecks and Castaways: Firsthand Accounts of Disasters at Sea.
Number of Pages: 474
Dimensions: 1.07 x 8.47 x 5.61 IN
Publication Date: August 22, 2000
