Modern Essays

Modern Essays

By Harry Morgan Ayres
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Length9h 12m

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(Excerpt): "This vigorous survey of American letters is the first chapter of John Macy's admirable volume The Spirit of American Literature, published in 1913—a book shrewd, penetrating and salty, which has unfortunately never reached one-tenth of the ma

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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length9 hrs 12 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
19A WORD FOR AUTUMN By A. A. Milne
2PREFACE
20"A CLERGYMAN" By Max Beerbohm
3MARY WHITE By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
21SAMUEL BUTLER: DIOGENES OF THE VICTORIANS By Stuart P. Sherman
4NIAGARA FALLS By Rupert Brooke
22BED-BOOKS AND NIGHT-LIGHTS By H. M. Tomlinson
5THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE By Don Marquis
23THE PRECEPT OF PEACE By Louise Imogen Guiney
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6I
24ON LYING AWAKE AT NIGHT By Stewart Edward White
7II
25A WOODLAND VALENTINE By Marian Storm
8"THE MAN-O'-WAR'S 'ER 'USBAND" By David W. Bone
26THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY By George Santayana
9THE MARKET By William Mcfee
27NOCTURNE By Simeon Strunsky
10HOLY IRELAND By Joyce Kilmer
28BEER AND CIDER By George Saintsbury
11A FAMILIAR PREFACE By Joseph Conrad
29A FREE MAN'S WORSHIP By Bertrand Russell
12ON DRAWING By A. P. Herbert
30SOME HISTORIANS By Philip Guedalla
13O. HENRY By O. W. Firkins
31WINTER MIST By Robert Palfrey Utter
14THE MOWING OF A FIELD By Hilaire Belloc
32TRIVIA By Logan Pearsall Smith
15THE STUDENT LIFE By WILLIAM OSLER
33BEYOND LIFE By James Branch Cabell
16THE DECLINE OF THE DRAMA By Stephen Leacock
34THE FISH REPORTER By Robert Cortes Holliday
17AMERICA AND THE ENGLISH TRADITION By Harry Morgan Ayres
35SOME NONSENSE ABOUT A DOG By Harry Esty Dounce
18THE RUSSIAN QUARTER By Thomas Burke
36THE FIFTY-FIRST DRAGON By Heywood Broun

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