The Art of the personal essay
Subtitle: an anthology from the classical era to the present
By: selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
Contributors: Lopate, Phillip, 1943-; Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books paperback ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books, Doubleday
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 777
Subjects: Essays; Essays -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: "A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [771]-777).
Table of contents: title: Seneca; title: Plutarch; title: Sei Shonagon; title: Kenko; title: Ou-Yang Hsiu; title: Michel de Montaigne; title: Abraham Cowley; title: Addison & Steele; title: Samuel Johnson; title: Maria Edgeworth; title: Charles Lamb; title: William Hazlitt; title: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Max Beerbohm; title: G. K. Chesterton; title: Virginia Woolf; title: George Orwell; title: Ivan Turgenev; title: Lu Hsun; title: Junichiro Tanizaki; title: Walter Benjamin; title: Jorge Luis Borges; title: Hubert Butler; title: E. M. Cioran; title: Roland Barthes; title: Natalia Ginzburg; title: Carlos Fuentes; title: Wole Soyinka; title: Sara Suleri; title: Henry David Thoreau; title: H. L. Mencken; title: Robert Benchley; title: James Thurber; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: E. B. White; title: M. F. K. Fisher; title: Mary McCarthy; title: Seymour Krim; title: James Baldwin; title: Gore Vidal; title: Adrienne Rich; title: Edward Hoagland; title: Wendell Berry; title: Joan Didion; title: Annie Dillard; title: Richard Selzer; title: Phillip Lopate; title: Scott Russell Sanders; title: Gayle Pemberton; title: Richard Rodriguez.