Modern Essays

by Christopher Morley (Editor)

MODERN ESSAYS; Selected by Christopher Morley
Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York, 1921

"American Literature" by John Macy
"Mary White" by William Allen White
"Niagara Falls" by Rupert Brooke
"The Almost Perfect State" by Don Marquis
“The Man-o’-War’s ’Er ’Usband” by David W. Bone
"The Market" by William McFee
"Holy Ireland" by Joyce Kilmer
"A Familiar Preface" by Joseph Conrad
"On Drawing" by A. P. Herbert
"O. Henry" by O. W. Firkins
"The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc
"The Student Life" by William Osler
"The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock
"America and the English Tradition" by Harry Morgan Ayres
"The Russian Quarter" by Thomas Burke
"A Word for Autumn" by A. A. Milne
“A Clergyman” by Max Beerbohm
"Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians" by Stuart P. Sherman
"Bed-Books and Night-Lights" by H. M. Tomlinson
"The Precept of Peace" by Louise Imogen Guiney
"On Lying Awake at Night" by Stewart Edward White
"A Woodland Valentine" by Marian Storm
"The Elements of Poetry" by George Santayana
"Nocturne" by Simeon Strunsky
"Beer and Cider" by George Saintsbury
"A Free Man’s Worship" by Bertrand Russell
"Some Historians" by Philip Guedalla
"Winter Mist" by Robert Palfrey Utter
"Trivia" by Logan Pearsall Smith
"Beyond Life" by James Branch Cabell
"The Fish Reporter" by Robert Cortes Holliday
"Some Nonsense About a Dog" by Harry Esty Dounce
"The Fifty-First Dragon" by Heywood Broun

Genres: Audiobook

227 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

American writer Christopher Darlington Morley founded the Saturday Review, from 1924 to 1940 edited it, and prolifically, most notably authored popular novels.

Christopher Morley, a journalist, essayist, and poet, also produced on stage for a few years and gave college lectures.

Reviews

[X · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some really great quotes in here.

[Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wonderful experiments in style. Little ditties, elegant and self-contained. Light and cloud wandering

[K. Titchenell]

Some of the best writing of the early 20th century. See particularly Bertrand Russell's Free Man's Worship.

[William O. II · Rating 5 out of 5]

a must read

[Chintushig Tumenbayar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thirty-three English and American personal essays chosen by a novelist. A must read.