The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious
characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal
touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy,
and sustained argument.
All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford
Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to
appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers:
classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites,
recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly
welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American
essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond.
This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature
of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith
Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger,
pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters,
plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the
right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains
some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most
entertaining.
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