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An anthology of personal essays by some of the world's finest writers includes the contributions of Mark Twain, Oliver Sacks, Virginia Woolf, E. B. White, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, and other notable American and British authors.
By Joseph Epstein (editor)
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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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Essays deal with middle age, the slippage of standards, social aspects of car ownership, music, and solitude
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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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9780881254990 | Reprint edition (Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 1994), cover price $22.95

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A collection of essays on the most poignant and humorous issues of today features the writing of Ada Louise Huxtable, Ward Just, Oliver Sacks, Cynthia Ozick, Alex Haley, and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. Simultaneous. 35,000 first printing.
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9780395636497, titled "The Best American Essays 1993" | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

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9780395636480 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

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Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, and Anthony Burgess
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9780393035193 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.

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Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles
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9780393309188 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles

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Essays deal with fame, insults, boredom, teaching, quotations, gamblers, scouting, height, smoking, fate, hats, envy, reading, gossip, money, and illness (view table of contents)
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9780393029550 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with fame, insults, boredom, teaching, quotations, gamblers, scouting, height, smoking, fate, hats, envy, reading, gossip, money, and illness

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9780393308549 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1992), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with fame, insults, boredom, teaching, quotations, gamblers, scouting, height, smoking, fate, hats, envy, reading, gossip, money, and illness

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Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles
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9780393030228 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles

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Product Description: This collection of essays by the author of "Plausible Prejudices" and "Once More Around the Block" focuses on the writers to whom Joseph Epstein feels indebted. The range extends historically from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, and includes Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym and V...read more
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9780393026313 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays by the author of "Plausible Prejudices" and "Once More Around the Block" focuses on the writers to whom Joseph Epstein feels indebted.

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9780393307160 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays by the author of "Plausible Prejudices" and "Once More Around the Block" focuses on the writers to whom Joseph Epstein feels indebted.

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Offers a collection of essays about such topics as growing older, the pleasures of friendship, gluttony, and keeping journals
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9780393306330 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of essays about such topics as growing older, the pleasures of friendship, gluttony, and keeping journals

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Product Description: "Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did—indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily synonymous with ruthless, narrow self-interest? Or, as Mr...read more
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9780929587189 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, October 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein.

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Essays discuss the future, childhood, generalizations, fountain pens, memory, movies, vulgarity, reading, names, cliches, Manhattan, and mail
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9780393304077 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the future, childhood, generalizations, fountain pens, memory, movies, vulgarity, reading, names, cliches, Manhattan, and mail

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In this collection of essays, the author of 'The Middle of My Tether' considers the various influences upon writing in the recent past that have systematically lessened its glory
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9780393303322 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, the author of 'The Middle of My Tether' considers the various influences upon writing in the recent past that have systematically lessened its glory

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Sixteen contemporary writers reminisce about the teachers who had the most significant effect on their own minds and work, yielding insight into the thought and personality of such incisive thinkers as Yvor Winters, Hannah Arendt, and J. Robert Oppenheimer
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9780465044207 | Basic Books, March 1, 1981, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: Sixteen contemporary writers reminisce about the teachers who had the most significant effect on their own minds and work, yielding insight into the thought and personality of such incisive thinkers as Yvor Winters, Hannah Arendt, and J.

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Selections from Epstein's column in The American Scholar reveal his perceptions and anecdotal views of the interests, activities, and philosophies of contemporary Americans
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9780195026047 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Selections from Epstein's column in The American Scholar reveal his perceptions and anecdotal views of the interests, activities, and philosophies of contemporary Americans

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