The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles and gentle wit

and gentle wit

Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin

an awkward idealist whose happy marriage and domestic trials form the backdrop for a similar quest

Emerging in 1978 from Glasgow's post-punk scene

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, Phillip Lopate games & puzzles and gentle witFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking