[PDF] A Book Of English Essays eBook

Author : W. E. Williams
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1980
Category : English essays
ISBN : 9780140431537

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A survey of British prose presents notable essays by Bacon, Addison, Lamb, Stevenson, Priestley, Huxley, Pritchett, and others

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199556555

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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.

Author : Richard Marggraf Turley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317424158

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Essays are a major form of assessment in higher education today and this is a fact that causes some writers a great deal of anxiety. Fortunately, essay writing is a skill that can be learned, like any other. Through precise explanations, this fully updated edition of Writing Essays gives you the confidence to express yourself coherently and effectively. It demystifies the entire process of essay writing, helping you to become proficient and confident in every aspect. Writing Essays reveals the tricks of the trade, making your student life easier. You’ll learn how to impress tutors by discovering exactly what markers look for when they read your work. Using practical examples selected from real student assignments and tutor feedback, this book covers every aspect of composition, from introductions and conclusions, down to presentation and submission. It also advises you on stress-free methods of revision, helps with exam essays, explains the principles of effective secondary source management, and shows you how to engage meaningfully with other critics’ views. A new chapter will also guide you through the intricacies of the undergraduate dissertation. As a full-time university professor, Richard Marggraf Turley counsels students and assesses their work every day, helping him to recognise the challenges that they face. Accessible, concise and full of practical examples, Writing Essays is a response to these challenges and will be an invaluable companion for Humanities students who wish to improve their grades and become confident in the art of essay writing.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374710562

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A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakening A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, DieFackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though he had a fervent following, which included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Luckily, Jonathan Franzen is one of them. In The Kraus Project, Franzen, whose "calm, passionate critical authority" has been praised in TheNew York Times Book Review, not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult writer, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions strongly, a critic capable of untangling Kraus's often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America. While Kraus is lampooning the iconic German poet and essayist Heinrich Heine and celebrating his own literary hero, the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy, Franzen is annotating Kraus the way Kraus annotated others, surveying today's cultural and technological landscape with fearsome clarity, and giving us a deeply personal recollection of his first year out of college, when he fell in love with Kraus's work. Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion, and literature.

Author : Keith S. Folse
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780618271917

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Book gives instruction and extensive practical exercises and activities in essay writing at the high-intermediate to advanced level. Provides instruction in several rhetorical styles and exercises that offer practice in both working with the writling process and developing a final written product.

Author : James F. Slevin
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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An assessment of the state of composition. In 13 essays, James Slevin argues toward a view of the discipline as a set of activities, not as an enclosed field of knowledge. Such a view broadens the meaning of the work of composition to include both teaching and learning, a two-way process.

Author : Prof. Avtar S. Virdi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1483657280

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Marvelous English Essays (original year of copyright -2012) The hardest part of understanding either mother tongue or a foreign language is to express our opinions in that language. We need clear ideas and the most appropriate words for an impressive piece of writing. As a teacher, Prof. Virdi found several students very dissatisfied with essay material available to them either in books or on internet. He wrote several essays to help them pass their exams and they showed marvelous results. Mr Virdi has delved very-very deep into English for a long time before bringing out this book. These essays are so touching and convincing that readers cannot help feeling satiation. Prof. Virdi is highly educated, well-read and so confident about the standard of the contents in his book that he has put $10,000 on stake to show and prove any other book better than this one. He is sure that after going through this book, readers will have hundreds of fresh ideas and will be compelled to feel -East or West, Prof. Avtar S virdi is the best. Just try this! For any sort of feedback, please call the author @ 1-604-725-3340 or email:[email protected]