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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Modern Essays

Modern Essays

Herbert, A. P.
Firkins, O. W.
Belloc, Hilaire

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Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 1540526747
ISBN13: 9781540526748
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 22 2016
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Thirty-three epitomal English and American personal essays chosen by a novelist who conceived the reader of his anthology as a friend spending the evening in happy gossip along the shelves. Selected by Christopher Morley 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

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