Oxford Book of American Essays

By Various

Book Id: WPLBN0002953832
Format Type:
File Size: 589.95 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Oxford Book of American Essays
Author:	Various
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Oxford Book of American Essays
Historic Publication Date:	1914
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Various, B. (1914). Oxford Book of American Essays. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of Horace. It seems to be an attempt to show off the Americans as writers. (Summary by JCarson)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Essay/Short nonfiction