as the forerunner of the nineteenth century magazine, with its character-sketches and its brief tales, its literary ... It was a new departure, although the writers of the Tatler and of the Spectator had profited by the Conversations of ...
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The Oxford Book of American Essays By W. C. Brownell et al.
The Oxford Book of American Essays
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This essay appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly for May, 1883.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays Edited by Ilan Stavans Like the novel and the short story, the essay is free-minded, ambitious, and seems to satisfy many needs at...
Presents a collection of fifty-six familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, and Kate Chopin.