Book
The Norton book of personal essays
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.