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A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities, ” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly s...

An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies-those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams-were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblemat...

In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human beings. Reading superior fiction, he holds, arouses the mind in a way that nothing else quite does. He shows how the novel at its best operates above the level of ideas in favor of taking up the truths of the heart. No other form probes so deeply int...

To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life--envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship--the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter, despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World along with many choic...

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To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life--envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship--the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter, despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World along with many choic...

Diese DVD enthält folgende Titel: - Paris, lieben und sterben: Das befreite Paris 1945. Die lebenslustige Helen (Elizabeth Taylor) gibt Kriegsreporter Charles (Van Johnson) das Jawort. Der Journalist strebt eine Karriere als Schriftsteller an. Als sein Traum verpufft, verfällt er dem Alkohol. Durch den Alkohol wird er nicht nur seine Frau, sondern auch die Tochter Vicky verlieren... - Seine Scheidung - Ihre Scheidung: Martin ist ein ehrgeizige...

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 Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains 58 essays. Subjects range ...

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. "Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm, " he writes. "Charm is magic of a kind, it casts a spell. In the presence of charm the world seems lighter and lovelier. A charming person can cause you to forget your problems, at least temporarily, to hold the world's dreariness at bay. Charm is a reminder that the worl...

Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends in shriveling the heart. Of the seven deadly sins, he concludes, only envy is no fun at all. Writing in a conversational, erudite, self-deprecating style that wears its learning Lightly, Epstein...

Gossip is no trivial matter, despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World, along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best-clever, mocking, a great private pleasure-to a corrosive ...

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Excerpt from Die Logischen Principien der Zeitmessung: Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doctorgrades der Philosophischen Facultät der Universität LeipzigNewton's Auftrag von ihm besorgten Ausgabe der Principien).Newton, l. C.cher sich uns unbemerklich zu verschieben droht, nein, hie mangelt uns die Gewissheit, dass der benutzte Maassstab sei f sich unverändert erhält. Die relative Zeit N ewton's is wir wir gesehen, das an der Bewegung ...

Excerpt from Die Logischen Principien der Zeitmessung: Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doctorgrades der Philosophischen Facultät der Universität LeipzigNewton's Auftrag von ihm besorgten Ausgabe der Principien).Newton, l. C.cher sich uns unbemerklich zu verschieben droht, nein, hie mangelt uns die Gewissheit, dass der benutzte Maassstab sei f sich unverändert erhält. Die relative Zeit N ewton's is wir wir gesehen, das an der Bewegung ...

The estimable Joseph Epstein-essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updike-brings together twenty short stories in his first such collection since 2010. Most, though not all, of the stories are set in Epstein's hometown of Chicago, but otherwise they have a variety of subjects: among the titles are "Dad's Gay, " "The Casanova of LaSalle Street, " "JDat...

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. "Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm, " he writes. "Charm is magic of a kind, it casts a spell. In the presence of charm the world seems lighter and lovelier. A charming person can cause you to forget your problems, at least temporarily, to hold the world's dreariness at bay. Charm is a reminder that the worl...

Limited edition, numbered 8" x 10" art print inside! Enclosed in a resealable, clear protective sleeve.Making the game: 32 pages of art and an exclusive interview with the director of DISSIDIA® FINAL FANTASY® NT, Takeo Kujiraoka!In-Depth Character Guides: Breakdowns of each character's bravery and HP attacks, EX skills, unique mechanics, battle strengths, and more.Battle Arenas: Revisit the FINAL FANTASY® universe with overviews of every comba...

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. The Ideal of Culture contains 63 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read.

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