Essays of the Masters

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: Charles Neider
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 08/22/2000
Pages: 474
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.61w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780815410973

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2001 pg. 135

About the Author
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.