Best American essays.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: American essays
Notes: Reprint of the 1910 ed.
Table of contents: title: The way to wealth, by B. Franklin.; title: The whistle, by B. Franklin.; title: Defects of the original Confederation, by A. Hamilton.; title: Objects and powers of a Federal Union, by A. Hamilton.; title: On a national literature, by W. E. Channing.; title: The mutability of literature, by W. Irving.; title: The philosophy of composition, by E. A. Poe.; title: Compensation, by R. W. Emerson.; title: Growth: in man; in woman, by S. M. F. Ossoli.; title: Solitude, by H. D. Thoreau.; title: Fire-worship, by N. Hawthorne.; title: Defense of poetry, by H. W. Longfellow.; title: Table talk, by O. W. Holmes.; title: Romance, by H. B. Stowe.; title: Dream-culture, by H. W. Beecher.; title: At sea, by J. R. Lowell.; title: My chateaux, by G. W. Curtis.; title: Beside a city grate: anthracite, by D. G. Mitchell.; title: Christmas: juventus mundi; giving as a luxury, by C. D. Warner.; title: A theory of poetry, by H. Timrod.; title: From Bacon to Beethoven, by S. Lanier.