The Art of the Essay: The most intelligent company in print

The essay is the form of thinking out loud — Montaigne invented it by asking, of every subject, "What do I know?" Here are the masters of the most personal, most companionable kind of prose.

In this collection

• It Is Not Necessary
• Storage
• The Child in the Garden
• Where Shall we Land. (Rhymes of Rainy Days)
• Queen Elizabeth Speaks
• The Battle of the Books
• Youth a Narrative
• Too Soon Away
• Nightmare and Something Delicate
• One Day Stands Out
• Good-By Er Howdy-Do
• A Masterless Dog
• Romance -- Three Gleams
• The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
• Phantom or Fact
• Endurance
• La Mort D'Amour
• A Dream-Song
• Reality
• The Russian
• Orso, E' Non Furon Mai Fiumi Ne Stagni
• Renascence
• Jupiter Found
• The Secret of a Train
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