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The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. 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Here is Eveleyn Waugh, providing tips on how to move in Well-Informed Circles ("Attribute all facts of common knowledge to personal information; for instance, do not say, 'What a wet week it has been,' but, 'They tell me at Greenwich they have registered the highest rainfall for six weeks'"); Ralph Waldo Emerson on conservatism and innovation; Ambrose Bierce on "the horror of the characteristic American custom of promiscuous, unsought, and unauthorized introductions"; Oscar Wilde on the critic as artist ("It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless"); Rose Macaulay on dinner parties; and James Baldwin, musing about what a remote Swiss village tells him about race in the wider world ("Joyce is right about history being a nightmare--but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.").
The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from Geoge Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.]]> 1991 0 0 false Fri Mar 06 20:46:06 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 20:46:06 -0800 2009 48167683 147675 654465 0192840894 9780192840899 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176786813m/654465.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176786813s/654465.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654465.The_Oxford_Book_of_Essays 4.39 18 1991 4 0 false Tue Mar 03 18:39:53 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 18:39:53 -0800 2009 47280037 1549104 654465 0192840894 9780192840899 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176786813m/654465.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176786813s/654465.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654465.The_Oxford_Book_of_Essays 4.39 18 1991 0 0 false Mon Feb 23 12:36:58 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 12:37:00 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6004681