Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Alexis de Tocqueville dissects the legacy of the cele...

Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, those he has revered and learned from. Hi...

The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they...

Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great Max Bialystock in The Producers ? ?Look a...

Provides practical advice on breaking down the implementation and deployment of voice mobility n...

Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessa...

Snobbery is Epstein's deliciously readable (Harper's Bazaar) collection of essays skewering all m...

Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far ...

Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the ple...

Paul Klee's words on his art, 'I take a line out for a walk,' describe precisely what the author ...

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm...

Sketches of eminent Americans and a pointed reconsideration of the ingredients of the American Dr...

Joseph Epstein demonstrates time and again his talent for taking nearly any subject and polishing...

Die 'Doris Day Collection' enthält 'Bettgeflüster', 'Ein Pyjama für Zwei' und 'Schick mir keine B...

Der Neid ist in der Reihe der sieben Todsünden die unangenehmste und heimlichste.Namenlose Boshei...

Originally published: First edition. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, c1993.

In this collection, his twenty-fifth book, Joseph Epstein departs from writing about literature a...

'Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, th...

Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical p...

In Fabulous Small Jews, the best-selling author Joseph Epstein has produced eighteen charming, ma...

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is...

Pbk. printing of hardcover ed. published in 2005.

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the ple...

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top...

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top...

'The estimable Joseph Epstein--essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of th...

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top...

'This is a book about the importance of fiction not alone as an aesthetic phenomenon but as a mea...

The newest addition to the widely-acclaimed Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad, this...

'An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies-those by Benvenuto ...

'America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of i...

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the...

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