Montiaigne, Michel de 1533-1592 creator Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 Defoe, Daniel 1660-1731 Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Hazlitt, William 1778-1830 Lamb, Charles 1775-1834 Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873 Hunt, Leigh 1784-1859 Shelley, Bysshe Percy 1792-1822 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Macaulay, Thomas Babington 1800-1859 Poe, Edgar Allen 1809-1849 Carlyle, Thomas 1795-1881 Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin 1804-1869 Eliot, George 1819.1880 Addison, Joseph 1672-1719 Wake, Charles Staniland 1835-1910 Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Martin, Edward Sandford 1856-1939 Howells, William Dean 1837-1920 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894 Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919 Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 Russel, Bertrand 1872-1970 Morley, Christopher 1890-1957 White, Stewart Edward 1873-1946 Saintsbury, George 1845-1933 Osler, William 1849-1919 Chesterton, G K Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874-1936 Tagore, Rabindranath 1861-1941 Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 Orwell, George Eric Arthur Blair 1903-1950 Benson, Arthur Arthur Christopher Benson 1862-1925 text cb New Delhi Prakash Books 2022 monographic eng

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720 pages : 20 cm From self-expression and personal discoveries to revelations and diatribes, essays have been thought-provoking, educating, informing and even entertaining us for more than four hundred years. And the diversity of the subjects this art has covered is boundless loving, hating, self-reliance, prudence, witches, liars and even poetry and writing. The literary canon abounds with innumerable essays. Out of this, we bring to you fifty carefully chosen, remarkable and insightful masterpieces to rekindle your appreciation of this art form, such as The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf, Of Liars by Michel de Montaigne, Of Love by Francis Bacon, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot, Friendship by Joseph Addison and many more. An essay is a thing which someone does himself; and the point of the essay is not the subject, . . . but the charm of personality. Arthur Benson, The Art of the Essayist All writers are vain, selfish and lazy and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. George Orwell, Why I Write The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth. - Amazon PN6010-6790 808.83 9789388144339 FISKH 230907 20230907104812.0 1567 eng