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PR1363 |
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.O9 1991 |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT |
| Title |
The Oxford Book of Essays / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Chosen and Edited by John Gross. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford [England] ; |
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New York : |
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Oxford University Press, |
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1991. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
| Extent |
xxiii, 680 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiv]-xviii). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
| Title |
Of truth ; |
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Of revenge ; |
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Of boldness ; |
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Of innovations ; |
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Of masques and triumphs / |
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Sir Francis Bacon -- |
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A chambermaid ; |
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A fair and happy milkmaid / |
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Sir Thomas Overbury -- |
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An antiquary ; |
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A goold old man ; |
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A pot-poet / |
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John Earle -- |
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How the distempers of these times should affect wise men / |
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Owen Felltham -- |
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On dreams / |
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Sir Thomas Browne -- |
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Of anger / |
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Thomas Fuller -- |
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A degenerate noble / |
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Samuel Butler -- |
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Of charity, of the love of God / |
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Jeremy Taylor -- |
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Of avarice / |
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Abraham Cowley -- |
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"Cahucer" |
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(from Preface to the Fables) -- |
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Good manners and good breeding ; |
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A meditation upon a broom-stick / |
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Jonathan Swift -- |
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Thoughts in Westminster Abbey ; |
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The Royal Exchange ; |
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Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey ; |
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Sir Roger at Vauxhall / |
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Joseph Addison -- |
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On recollections of childhood / |
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Sir Richard Steele -- |
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Upon affectation / |
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Lord Chesterfield -- |
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The levee / |
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Benjamin Franklin -- |
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The poor and their betters / |
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Henry Fielding -- |
| Title |
Dignity and uses of biography ; |
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Conversation ; |
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Debtors' prisons (1) ; |
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Debtors' prisons (2) / |
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Samuel Johnson -- |
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Of the dignity or meanness of human nature / |
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David Hume -- |
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On dress ; |
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A little great man ; |
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On national prejudices / |
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Oliver Goldsmith -- |
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On war / |
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James Boswell -- |
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Dream children ; |
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from On some of the old actors / |
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Charles Lamb -- |
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On the pleasure of hating ; |
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Brummelliana / |
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William Hazlitt -- |
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Getting up on cold mornings / |
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Leigh Hunt -- |
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The knocking at the gat in Macbeth / |
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Thomas de Quincey -- |
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from Signs of the times / |
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Thomas Carlyle ; |
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from Lord Clive / |
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Lord Macaulay -- |
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On secrecy / |
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Sir Henry Taylor -- |
| Title |
Secular knowledge not a principle of action / |
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John Henry Newman -- |
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The conservative / |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson -- |
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The haunted mind / |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne -- |
| Title |
"Bentham and Coleridge" |
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(from Coleridge) / |
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John Stuart Mill -- |
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City of London churches / |
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Charles Dickens -- |
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Autor de mon chapeau / |
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William Makepeace Thackeray -- |
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The plumber / |
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Anthony Trollope -- |
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Night and moonlight / |
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Henry David Thoreau -- |
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The philosophy of Christianity / |
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James Anthony Froude -- |
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Thomas Carlyle / |
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George Eliot -- |
| Title |
Heine and the Philistines |
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(from Heinrich Heine) / |
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Matthew Arnold -- |
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from Evolution and ethics / |
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T.H. Huxley -- |
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Dull government / |
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Walter Bagehot -- |
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Talking about our troubles / |
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Mark Rutherford -- |
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from Autobiography / |
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Sir Leslie Stephen -- |
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On knowing what gives us pleasure / |
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Samuel Butler -- |
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Thoughts of God / |
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Mark Twain -- |
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Sandro Botticelli / |
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Walter Pater -- |
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Wasps / |
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W.H. Hudson -- |
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Disintroductions / |
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Ambrose Bierce -- |
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The Ph.D. octopus / |
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William James -- |
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from London / |
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Henry James -- |
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Under the early stars / |
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Alice Meynell -- |
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The acorn-gatherer / |
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Richard Jefferies -- |
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Aes triplex / |
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Robert Louis Stevenson -- |
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"the true critic" |
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(from The critic as artist) / |
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Oscar Wilde -- |
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Sir George Grove / |
| Statement of responsibility |
George Bernard Shaw -- |
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The censor of plays / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joseph Conrad -- |
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A visit to Walt Whitman / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James G. Huneker -- |
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William James / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Jay Chapman -- |
| Title |
Intellectual ambition ; |
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Intuitive morality / |
| Statement of responsibility |
George Santayana -- |
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Cordova / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Arthur Symons -- |
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On the departure of a guest / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Hilaire Belloc -- |
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On being modern-minded / |
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Bertrand Russel -- |
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"A clergyman" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir Max Beerbohm -- |
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The dream / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir Winston Churchill -- |
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A defence of Penny Dreadfuls ; |
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On sandals and simplicity / |
| Statement of responsibility |
G.K. Chesterton -- |
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Invective / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir Desmond McCarthy -- |
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My own centenary / |
| Statement of responsibility |
E.M. Forster -- |
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Creighton / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lytton Strachey -- |
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The libido for the ugly ; |
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Funeral march / |
| Statement of responsibility |
H.L. Mencken -- |
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Evening parties / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Rose Macaulay -- |
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Harriette Wilson ; |
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The death of the moth / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Virginia Woolf -- |
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Finnegans wake / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Stephens -- |
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The greatest Victorian / |
| Statement of responsibility |
G.M. Young -- |
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Insouciance / |
| Statement of responsibility |
D.H. Lawrence -- |
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What there is to see at the zoo / |
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Marianne Moore -- |
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Marie Lloyd / |
| Statement of responsibility |
T.S. Eliot -- |
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Symmetry and repitition / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir Lewis Namier -- |
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The necessary enemy / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Katherine Anne Porter -- |
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The sterner sex / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Rebecca West -- |
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The colloid and the crystal / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joseph Wood Krutch -- |
| Title |
On being the |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
| Title |
About myself / |
| Statement of responsibility |
E.B. White -- |
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Our half-Hogarth / |
| Statement of responsibility |
V.S. Pritchett -- |
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The ant-lion / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Cyril Connolly -- |
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Reflections on Gandhi / |
| Statement of responsibility |
George Orwell -- |
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Well-informed circles ... and how to move in them / |
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Evelyn Waugh -- |
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The lost childhood / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Graham Greene -- |
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Adams at ease / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lionel Trilling -- |
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A new Westminster / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir John Betjeman -- |
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The faces of Buddha / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir William Empson -- |
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The snout / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Loren Eiseley -- |
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What if--? : English versus German and French / |
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Jacques Barzun -- |
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In search of Nib-Joy / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Maurice Richardson -- |
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Young hunger / |
| Statement of responsibility |
M.F.K. Fisher -- |
| Title |
Churchill and Roosevelt |
| Miscellaneous information |
(from Winston Churchill in 1940) / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Sir Isaiah Berlin -- |
| Title |
To err is human / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lewis Thomas -- |
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Bad poets / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Randall Jarrell -- |
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Thomas Hobbes / |
| Statement of responsibility |
H.R. Trevor-Roper -- |
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The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Elizabeth Hardwick -- |
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The gangster as tragic hero / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Robert Warshow -- |
| Title |
The Homburg hat / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Cobb -- |
| Title |
The people's victor / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Conor Cruise O'Brien -- |
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Movies on television / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Pauline Kael -- |
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The marquis and the madame / |
| Statement of responsibility |
D.J. Enright -- |
| Title |
The savage seventh / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Philip Larkin -- |
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The crisp at the crossroads / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Reyner Banham -- |
| Title |
Stranger in the village / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Baldwin -- |
| Title |
Robert Graves and the twelve Caesars / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gore Vidal -- |
| Title |
La Paz / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jan Morris -- |
| Title |
A visit from royalty / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Dan Jacobson -- |
| Title |
Is it alas, Yorick? / |
| Statement of responsibility |
P.J. Kavanagh -- |
| Title |
Columbus and Crusoe / |
| Statement of responsibility |
V.S. Naipaul -- |
| Title |
The bankrupt man / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Updike -- |
| Title |
At the dam / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joan Didion -- |
| Title |
About face / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joseph Epstein -- |
| Title |
A blizzard of tiny kisses / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Clive James. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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English essays. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
American essays. |
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Essays |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Essais anglais. |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Essais am�ericains. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
| Personal name |
Gross, John J. |
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