The Norton Book of Friendship
- ISBN-10
- 0393030652
- ISBN-13
- 9780393030655
- Category
- Friendship
- Pages
- 622
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company Incorporated
- Authors
- Eudora Welty, Ronald A. Sharp
Description
Stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs, by Aesop, Yeats, Homer, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and others, offer a commentary on friendship
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