Updates on the Alma Powell Branch Library can be found on kpl.gov/pow

Book

1 of 1 Copy Available

  • CENTRAL: Second Floor
Log In to Place HoldAdd Author AlertMore Details

The Norton book of personal essays

Call Number

  • 814.08 E64 (CEN)

Browse similar titles by call number

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.

Physical Description

477 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • The personal essay: a form of discovery / Joseph Epstein
  • Italian without a master / Mark Twain
  • Something defeasible / Max Beerbohm
  • Joseph Conrad / Bertrand Russell
  • A chance meeting / Willa Cather
  • The dream / Winston Churchill
  • Reflections on journalism / H. L. Mencken
  • Leslie Stephen / Virginia Woolfe
  • A visit to a godmother / Rebecca West
  • St. Augustine and the bullfight
  • The middle or blue period / Dorothy Parker (Cont.)
  • (Contents cont.) A preface to Persius / Edmund Wilson
  • Sleeping and waking / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • What are you doing in my dreams? / Dawn Powell
  • Once more to the lake / E. B. White
  • How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
  • In quest of beer / Frank O'Connor
  • Revisiting Greece / Cyril Connolly
  • "The moon under water" / George Orwell
  • A good appetite / A. J. Liebling
  • Chic; English, French, and American / Nancy Mitford
  • The lost childhood / Graham Greene
  • The stranger / Emily Hahn
  • The angry winter / Loren Eiseley
  • The flaw / M. F. K. Fisher
  • The little store / Eudora Welty (Cont.)
  • (Contents cont.) An author's mail / Barbara Tuchman
  • Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas
  • Living with music / Ralph Ellison
  • My father / Doris Lessing
  • Jury Duty / William Zinsser
  • Tangier / Truman Capote
  • Stranger in the village / James Baldwin
  • How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills
  • The king of the birds / Flannery O'Connor
  • The lesson of the master / Cunthia Ozick
  • Cops and writers / Jean Hollander
  • The vanishing act / Dan Jacobson
  • Take the "A" train / Jeremy Bernstein
  • Quintana / John Gregory Dunne
  • In the middle of the journey / V.S. Naipaul (Cont.)
  • (Contents cont.) The bull on the mountain / Oliver Sacks
  • On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion
  • I like a Gershwin tune / Joseph Epstein
  • The Bey / Bruce Chatwin
  • Tools of torture / Phyllis Rose
  • Ron her son / Nancy Mairs
  • Going home again / Richard Rodriguez
  • Living like weasels / Annie Dillard
  • The inheritance of tools / Scott Russell Sanders
  • Grown men / Barry Lopez
  • Oyez a ́Beaumont / Vicki Hearne
  • On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele
  • Mother tongue / Amy Tan
  • Biographical notes
  • Credits.

Share: Facebook Twitter