Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. The Ideal of Culture contains 63 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read.
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. The Ideal of Culture contains 63 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joseph Epstein was formerly editor of the American Scholar. A long-time resident of Chicago, he has taught English and writing at Northwestern University for many years. He has written for numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Weekly Standard and Commentary. He is the author of 29 books, many of them collections of essays. His books include the bestselling Snobbery and Friendship as well as the short-story collections The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff.
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Introduction I. The Culture The Ideal of Culture From Parent to Parenthood Death Takes No Holiday Wit Genius Cowardice Old Age and Other Laughs What's So Funny? The Fall of the WASPs The Virtue of Victims Cool The Sixties University of Chicago Days II. Literary Erich Auerbach Kafka Orwell Proust C. K. Scott Moncrieff The Young T. S. Eliot Philip Larkin Willa Cather George Kennan Isaiah Berlin Michael Oakeshott John O'Hara F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Most Successful Failure Wolcott Gibbs Evelyn Waugh J. F. Powers Edward Gibbon Herodotus Tacitus Encyclopaedia Britannica - The Eleventh Grammar Clichés Literary Rivals Why Read Biography? III. Jewish Sholem Aleichem Jokes A Genre of Thought Jews on the Loose Jewish Pugs Harry Golden Gershom Scholem Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas IV. Masterpieces The Brothers Ashkenazi Civilization of the Renaissance Montesquieu Machiavelli Gogol Speak, Memory Epictetus H. W. Fowler As a Driven Leaf Joseph and His Brothers Life and Fate Memoirs of Hadrian Charnwood's Lincoln Book of the Courtier Ronald Syme Quest for Corvo The Old Bunch The Life of Johnson V. Hitting Eighty Hitting Eighty Epigraph
Introduction I. The Culture The Ideal of Culture From Parent to Parenthood Death Takes No Holiday Wit Genius Cowardice Old Age and Other Laughs What's So Funny? The Fall of the WASPs The Virtue of Victims Cool The Sixties University of Chicago Days II. Literary Erich Auerbach Kafka Orwell Proust C. K. Scott Moncrieff The Young T. S. Eliot Philip Larkin Willa Cather George Kennan Isaiah Berlin Michael Oakeshott John O'Hara F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Most Successful Failure Wolcott Gibbs Evelyn Waugh J. F. Powers Edward Gibbon Herodotus Tacitus Encyclopaedia Britannica - The Eleventh Grammar Clichés Literary Rivals Why Read Biography? III. Jewish Sholem Aleichem Jokes A Genre of Thought Jews on the Loose Jewish Pugs Harry Golden Gershom Scholem Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas IV. Masterpieces The Brothers Ashkenazi Civilization of the Renaissance Montesquieu Machiavelli Gogol Speak, Memory Epictetus H. W. Fowler As a Driven Leaf Joseph and His Brothers Life and Fate Memoirs of Hadrian Charnwood's Lincoln Book of the Courtier Ronald Syme Quest for Corvo The Old Bunch The Life of Johnson V. Hitting Eighty Hitting Eighty Epigraph
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