Antique Hardcover Red Cloth Book Atlantic Classics Essays and Essay-Writing

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Popular classic by William Maddux Tanner

ATLANTIC CLASSICS

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-WRITING

Based on Atlantic Monthly Models

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND … Read more Popular classic by William Maddux Tanner

ATLANTIC CLASSICS

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-WRITING

Based on Atlantic Monthly Models

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM M. TANNER, M.A. Boston University

BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1930

Copyright years: The book was originally copyrighted in 1917, with a subsequent copyright renewal in 1918.

Publishers: The original publisher was "The Atlantic Monthly Company," and the current publisher is "Little, Brown, and Company" in partnership with "The Atlantic Monthly Company".

This specific copy is the 18th printing of the book.

PREFACE (from the book)

THE favor with which Atlantic Classics is being received has encouraged the publication of this the second collection of Atlantic essays. The present volume differs materially, however, from Atlantic Classics in that it is made up almost entirely of short, familiar essays published anonymously in the 'Contributors' Club' of the Atlantic, and is specially edited for the use of students. Because of the anonymity of the author in most cases, choice has been governed solely by the individual merit of each selection. An attempt has been made to include those essays that possess general and permanent human interest. The collection represents a rather wide range and variety of subjects. The average length of the essays chosen is about one thousand words. Proper limitation of the number to be included has been the most difficult part of the editor's task, for a great many essays have been omitted only because of lack of space.

In the preparation of this volume, both the student and the general reader have been kept in mind. In the introductory section and in the brief prefaces to the five type-groups, an effort has been made to render the study of the familiar essay a matter of pleasure and profit to the reader. It is hoped, furthermore, that these discussions may prove helpful to students who attempt the writing of familiar essays. See less