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Joseph Epstein has written 50 work(s)
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9780195158120 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 28, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Snobbery: The American Verson offers a lively, philosophical treatise on the deadly sin of envy, examining the diverse faces and manifestations of envy, the thoughts of the great philosophers, and discussing the malice that underlies envy, in the first volume in a new series exploring each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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9780195312041 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy.
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9780195308655 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 2, 2006, cover price $125.65 | About this edition: Available as a set through this special offer, here are seven engaging meditations on sin, written by some of our most eminent authors.
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9788449317125 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 30, 2005), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Una malevolencia silenciosa, una hostilidad frÃa y secreta, un deseo impotente, un rencor oculto y mortificante.
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9780395944028 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of eighteen stories featuring a host of characters at various crossroads and turning points in their lives, covering such themes as identity, family love, and repressed impulses.
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9780618446582 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 6, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of eighteen stories by the author of Snobbery: The American Version features a host of characters at various crossroads and turning points in their lives, in a volume that considers such themes as identity, family love, and repressed impulses.
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9780395944172 | Houghton Mifflin, July 9, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A look at snobbery in modern-day America after the fall of the old culture of prep schools, the Ivy League, and the Social Register examines new outlets for snobbery, including food and wine, fashion, schools, and high-achieving children.
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9780618340736 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 7, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A look at snobbery in modern-day America after the fall of the old culture of prep schools, the Ivy League, and the Social Register examines new outlets for snobbery, including food and wine, fashion, schools, and high-achieving children.
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9780881256147 | Ktav Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.00
9780881256154 | Ktav Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.00
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9780395944035 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a sixth collection of personal essays, the editor of 'The American Scholar' explores such topics as Gershwin, name-dropping, naps, aging, long books, pet peeves, Anglophilia, talent vs.
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9780393333398 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 1997, cover price $21.95
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9780393045468 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays representing a lifetime's reading discuss Montaigne, Cavafy, Fitzgerald, Solzhenitsyn, and fifteen other authors
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9780226753362 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 9, 1997, cover price $92.00
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9780393036541 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An anthology of twentieth-century essays considers such wide-ranging topics as racial conflict, sky diving, and table athletics and includes the works of Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, E.
9789990090161 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $0.02
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9780393037579 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays deal with middle age, the slippage of standards, social aspects of car ownership, music, and solitude
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9780881254990 | Reprint edition (Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 1994), cover price $22.95
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9780395636497, titled "The Best American Essays 1993" | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
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9780395636480 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, and Anthony Burgess
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9780393035193 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.
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9780393309188 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles
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9780393029550 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with fame, insults, boredom, teaching, quotations, gamblers, scouting, height, smoking, fate, hats, envy, reading, gossip, money, and illness
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9780393308549 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1992), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with fame, insults, boredom, teaching, quotations, gamblers, scouting, height, smoking, fate, hats, envy, reading, gossip, money, and illness
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9780393030228 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Nine Chicago-based short stories combine wit and precision to probe the meaning of ambition by creating insightful characters with realistic struggles
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9780393026313 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1989, cover price $18.95
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9780393307160 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $24.95
Offers a collection of essays about such topics as growing older, the pleasures of friendship, gluttony, and keeping journals
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9780393306330 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of essays about such topics as growing older, the pleasures of friendship, gluttony, and keeping journals
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9780929587189 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, October 1, 1989), cover price $19.95
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9780393304077 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the future, childhood, generalizations, fountain pens, memory, movies, vulgarity, reading, names, cliches, Manhattan, and mail
In this collection of essays, the author of 'The Middle of My Tether' considers the various influences upon writing in the recent past that have systematically lessened its glory
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9780393303322 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1986, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, the author of 'The Middle of My Tether' considers the various influences upon writing in the recent past that have systematically lessened its glory
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9780465044207 | Basic Books, March 1, 1981, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: Sixteen contemporary writers reminisce about the teachers who had the most significant effect on their own minds and work, yielding insight into the thought and personality of such incisive thinkers as Yvor Winters, Hannah Arendt, and J.
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9780195026047 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Selections from Epstein's column in The American Scholar reveal his perceptions and anecdotal views of the interests, activities, and philosophies of contemporary Americans
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