|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexis De Tocqueville , Joseph EpsteinPublisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 10.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 17.40cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780553214642ISBN 10: 0553214640 Pages: 976 Publication Date: 04 April 2000 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsNo better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good. <br>-- The New York Times <br>Praise for the work of Joseph Epstein: <br> Epstein is one of the premier contemporary American essayists...What is so remarkable about Epstein as an essay writer is that he'll begin a discussion at some personal place...and end up in another place relevant to us all. He enjoys making language work, not making it jump through hoops for show. -- Booklist <br> Joseph Epstein is an essayist in the brilliant tradition of Charles Lamb. He moves so effortlessly from the amusingly personal to the broadly philosophical that it takes a moment before you realize how far out into the intellectual cosmos you've been taken. <br>--Tom Wolfe <br> Joseph Epstein's essays no more need his identifying byline than Van Gogh's paintings need his signature. Epstein's style--call it learned whimsy--is unmistakable; for Epstein addicts, indispensable. <br>--George Will <br> Joseph Epstein is the liveliest, most erudite and engaging essayist we have. --James Atlas <br> If Epstein's ultimate ancestor is Montaigne, his more immediate master is Mencken. Like Mencken, he has fashioned a style that successfully combines elegance and even bookishness with street-smart colloquial directness. And there is nothing remote or aloof about him. <br>--John Gross, Chicago Tribune Author InformationOne of America's premier essayists, Joseph Epstein was the editor of The American Scholar for 25 years and has taught--and continues to teach--advanced prose, the reading and writing of fiction, the sociology of literature, autobiography, literature and politics, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Willa Cather at Northwestern University. Epstein is the author of 13 books, most recently Life Sentences and Narcissus Leaves the Pool, and has published roughly four hundred essays, stories, reviews and articles in such journals as The New Yorker, Harper's, Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Commentary, The New Criterion, The New York Review of Books, Encounter, The New York Times Magazine, and Dissent. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |