The Ideal of Culture: Essays by Epstein, Joseph

The Ideal of Culture: Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781604191233)

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The Ideal of Culture: Essays by Epstein, Joseph

The Ideal of Culture: Essays

$24.00
The Ideal of Culture: Essays by Epstein, Joseph

The Ideal of Culture: Essays

$24.00
Format: Hardcover
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Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. Joseph Epstein's The Ideal of Culture: Essays is the fourth such volume from Axios Press and contains 63 essays. Subjects range from domestic life to current social trends to an appraisal of "contemporary nuttiness." It follows the much acclaimed Essays in Biography, 2012, A Literary Education and Other Essays, 2014, and Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, 2016. After reading Epstein, we see life with a fresh eye. We also see ourselves a little more clearly. This is what Plutarch intended: life teaching by example, but with a wry smile and such a sure hand that we hardly notice the instruction. It is just pure pleasure.

Author: Joseph Epstein
ISBN-10: 1604191236
ISBN-13: 9781604191233
Publisher: Axios Press
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2018
Pages: 572
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.90d

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Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2018
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Joseph Epstein was formerly editor of the American Scholar. A long-time resident of Chicago, he has taught English and writing at Northwestern University for many years. He has written for numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Weekly Standard and Commentary. He is the author of 29 books, many of them collections of essays. His books include the bestselling Snobbery and Friendship as well as the short-story collections The Goldin Boys, Fabulous Small Jews, and The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff.

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