Beauty
By: an anthology by John Miller ; foreword by Diane Ackerman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780811813402
Subjects: Literary collections; Personal Beauty
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Diane Ackerman; title: The qualities of beauty  -- Edmund Burke; title: Women and beauty  -- Sophia Loren; title: A large bosom or a small  -- John Woodforde; title: To Helen  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Pagan beauty  -- Camille Paglia; title: Hymn to beauty  -- Charles Baudelaire; title: Two tales of beauty  -- Ken Siman; title: Beauty-with-the-seven-dresses  -- Italo Calvino; title: The arts of beauty; or Secrets of a ladies' toilet  -- Madame Lola Montez; title: The living beauty  -- W.B. Yeats; title: Memoirs of an ex-prom queen  -- Alix Kates Shulman; title: Queen Esther  -- J.T. Headley; title: Snow White  -- Donald Barthelme; title: Autobiography of a face  -- Lucy Grealy; title: Bringing up a beauty  -- Dorothy Cocks; title: Beauty and the Beast  -- Madame Leprince de Beaumont; title: Beauty and the Beast  -- Jean Cocteau; title: The late show  -- Helen Gurley Brown; title: The house of mirth  -- Edith Wharton; title: Being beauteous  -- Arthur Rimbaud; title: A pagan world  -- Madge Garland; title: To have and have not  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Playing in the dark  -- Toni Morrison; title: Personal beauty and racial betterment  -- Knight Dunlap; title: Rita and Marilyn  -- Eduardo Galeano; title: She walks in beauty  -- Lord Byron; title: This lunar beauty  -- W.H. Auden; title: In ancient Egypt  -- Clifford Bax; title: The beauty myth  -- Naomi Wolf; title: Beauty  -- Peter Schjeldahl; title: A Russian beauty  -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: Romeo and Juliet  -- William Shakespeare; title: Immortality -- Milan Kundera.