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Product Description: Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World, along with many choice bits from his own experience...read more
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9780618721948 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 29, 2011), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip—from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander—by one of our “great essayists” (David Brooks)To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip.
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9780547844596 | Mariner Books, November 27, 2012, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise.
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9781452635460 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 12, 2011), cover price $71.99 | About this edition: To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life-envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship-the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip.
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9781933338989 | 3 edition (Marion Street Pr, April 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Thousands of overused words and phrasesand alternatives to themare compiled in this ultimate writer’s reference, composing the perfect companion for those seeking to weed out bland, commonplace content and replace it with crisp, concise prose.
9781933338118 | 2 edition (Marion Street Pr, September 28, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This compilation of thousands of overused words and phrases, and alternatives to them, is the ultimate tool for the writer who seeks to weed out common, tired, language and replace it with crisp, concise writing.
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9780618721955, titled "The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff and Other Stories: And Other Stories" | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 14, 2010), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book.
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9780060598983 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project.
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9780061768880 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 3, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project.
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9780061747823 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99
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9780300116953 | Yale Univ Pr, October 21, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Joseph Epstein’s Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer’s magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments.
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9780300158441 | Yale Univ Pr, October 6, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Joseph Epstein’s Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer’s magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments.
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9781856175081 | Newnes, August 14, 2009, cover price $66.95
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9780080949512 | Elsevier Science, August 24, 2009, cover price $64.95
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9780618721931 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 6, 2007), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The American author presents a collection of essays on such topics as his father, his years as a teacher, analysis of the work of writers from Paul Valery to Truman Capote, and observations on such cultural critics as Harold Bloom and George Steiner.
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9780547085746 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 23, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great Max Bialystock in The Producers Look at me now!
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9780618872169 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 3, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a sixth collection of personal essays, the editor of The American Scholar explores such topics as Gershwin, name-dropping, naps, aging, long books, pet peeves, Anglophilia, talent vs.
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9780618341498 | Houghton Mifflin, July 5, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An analysis of the changing face of modern-day friendship examines the forces and factors that have shaped friendship, the differences between male and female friendships, and the duties and requirements of friendship.
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9780618872152 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 3, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A wry, critical analysis of the changing face of modern-day friendship examines the diverse forces and factors that have shaped friendship, presenting a witty look at the various types of friendships, the differences between male and female friendships, the duties and requirements of friendship, the impact of marriage and sex on a relationship, and more.
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9780547527116 | Houghton Mifflin, July 3, 2007, cover price $14.95
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9781589880399, titled "Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature" | Paul Dry Books Inc, January 30, 2007, cover price $8.42 | About this edition: What constitutes literary genius?
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9781589880351 | Paul Dry Books Inc, October 1, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: What constitutes literary genius?
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9780300107982 | Yale Univ Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Features more than twelve thousand famous quotations, including items not only from literary and historical sources, but also from popular culture, sports, computers, science, politics, law, and the social sciences.
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9780195158120 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 28, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Snobbery: The American Verson offers a lively, philosophical treatise on the deadly sin of envy, examining the diverse faces and manifestations of envy, the thoughts of the great philosophers, and discussing the malice that underlies envy, in the first volume in a new series exploring each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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9780195312041 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy.
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9780195308655 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 2, 2006, cover price $125.65
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9788449317125 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 30, 2005), cover price $27.95
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9780395944028 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of eighteen stories featuring a host of characters at various crossroads and turning points in their lives, covering such themes as identity, family love, and repressed impulses.
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9780618446582 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 6, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of eighteen stories by the author of Snobbery: The American Version features a host of characters at various crossroads and turning points in their lives, in a volume that considers such themes as identity, family love, and repressed impulses.
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A collection of essays making light of elitist behaviors shares the author's arch observations on such topics as food and wine, fashion, high-achieving children, educational institutions, politics, and name dropping. Reprint.
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9780395944172 | Houghton Mifflin, July 9, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A look at snobbery in modern-day America after the fall of the old culture of prep schools, the Ivy League, and the Social Register examines new outlets for snobbery, including food and wine, fashion, schools, and high-achieving children.
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9780618340736 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 7, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A look at snobbery in modern-day America after the fall of the old culture of prep schools, the Ivy League, and the Social Register examines new outlets for snobbery, including food and wine, fashion, schools, and high-achieving children.
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9780881256147 | Ktav Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.00
9780881256154 | Ktav Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.00
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9780395944035 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a sixth collection of personal essays, the editor of 'The American Scholar' explores such topics as Gershwin, name-dropping, naps, aging, long books, pet peeves, Anglophilia, talent vs.
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9780393333398 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Further literary writings by the foremost practitioner of the informal essay in our time.
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9780393045468 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays representing a lifetime's reading discuss Montaigne, Cavafy, Fitzgerald, Solzhenitsyn, and fifteen other authors
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9780226753362 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 9, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar.
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9780393036541 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An anthology of twentieth-century essays considers such wide-ranging topics as racial conflict, sky diving, and table athletics and includes the works of Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, E.
9789990090161 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $0.02
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9780393037579 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays deal with middle age, the slippage of standards, social aspects of car ownership, music, and solitude
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