The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

by Phillip Lopate

Book Overview

Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages. --Rivka Galchen

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.

The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. Even in those that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524747262
• ISBN13: 9781524747268
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"