Edition |
2d ed. |
Description |
ix, 397 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. Adolescence: self-definition and conflict / Edgar Z. Friedenberg -- Sealed treasure / Saul Bellow -- America and art / Louis Kronenberger -- Two cultures / C.P. Snow -- Illusion of the two cultures / Loren Eiseley -- 2. Cape Cod / John Hay -- dtDialogues as recorded by Lucien Price / Alfred North Whitehead -- Patience of Shakespeare / Frank Kermode -- Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence -- Walt Whitman: he had his nerve / Randall Jarrell -- Huckleberry Finn / Lionel Trilling -- Moby-Dick / Alfred Kazin -- 3. London / V.S. Pritchett -- Old stone house / Edmund Wilson -- A fresh appraisal of the Civil War / D.W. Brogan -- Irony of Southern history / C. Vann Woodward -- Dunkirk / Winston Churchill -- Dictator / Alan Bullock -- A young entomologist in old Russia / Vladimir Nabokov -- 91 Revere Street / Robert Lowell -- Boston: the lost ideal / Elizabeth Hardwick -- 4. If a slicker meet a slicker / S.J. Perelman -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Goodbye to all that / Robert Graves -- A hanging / George Orwell -- Comedy's greatest era / James Agee -- What I believe / E.M. Forster -- Beyond nihilism / Michael Polanyi. |
Subject |
English essays -- 20th century.
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English essays. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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American essays. |
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Ensayos americanos -- Siglo XX.
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