The essential prose
By: by Dorothy Van Ghent and Willard Maas
Contributors: Maas, Willard
Edition: [1st printing].
Series: Library of liberal arts; Library of liberal arts
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1225
Subjects: College readers
Table of contents: title: An Irish boyhood / William Butler Yeats; title: The secret annexe / Anne Frank; title: Priam and Achilles / Homer; title: Letter to his son / Lord Chesterfield; title: A sundering / James Joyce; title: Letter to his father / Franz Kafka; title: Filial sentiments of a parricide / Marcel Proust; title: The wisdom of Diotima / Plato; title: Two letters / Heloise and Abelard; title: Letters to Fanny Brawne / John Keats; title: Toward a psychology of love / Jos?e Ortega y Gasset; title: The difficult work of love / Rainer Maria Rilke; title: Love was once a little boy / D.H. Lawrence; title: I have nothing more to say / Joan of Arc; title: Desert spring / T.E. Lawrence; title: Shooting accident on an African farm / Isak Dinesen; title: The death of Socrates / Plato; title: The dead eat asphodels / Sir Thomas Browne; title: Reflections in Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison; title: She would have enjoyed it / George Bernard Shaw; title: The principle of population / Thomas Robert Malthus; title: A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift; title: Letter to my nephew / James Baldwin; title: Concerning Eqypt / Herodotus; title: Challenge and response / Arnold J. Toynbee; title: Alexander, conqueror / Plutarch; title: Christianity under the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon; title: The death of Pontiac / Francis Parkman; title: Lenin at the Finland Station / Edmund Wilson; title: A noiseless flash / John Hersey; title: The guardians of the Republic / Plato; title: The best of all possible worlds / Voltaire; title: The earthly paradise / Thomas Mann; title: The seeds of things / Lucretius; title: Typical dreams / Sigmund Freud; title: The personal and the collective unconscious / Carl Gustav Jung; title: The bodily memory / Marcel Proust; title: The allegory of the cave / Plato; title: A thinking thing / Ren?e Descartes; title: The sources of ideas / John Locke; title: Harvest miracle / Leo Tolstoy; title: The dance of the sprouting corn / D.H. Lawrence; title: Poetics / Aris.