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  2. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Bacon's essays, published in book form in 1597 (only five years after the death of Montaigne, containing the first ten of his essays), [7] 1612, and 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays. Ben Jonson first used the word essayist in 1609, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

  3. Essays (Francis Bacon) - Wikipedia

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    Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in ...

  4. Books v. Cigarettes - Wikipedia

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    The question Orwell raised continues to provide a basis for discussion, as in a review of a poll in which one in four Americans read no books at all in 2007 [2] and that chief executives claim that they have no time to read literature. [3] The essay was the subject of an article in Structo magazine which published 'Books v. Cigarettes: 63 years ...

  5. List of important publications in philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Fodor, The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, 1983; John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, 1983; Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief, 1983; Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism, 1984

  6. Literary Taste: How to Form It - Wikipedia

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    Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937. It includes a long list of recommended books, every item individually costed.

  7. George Orwell bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The first significant publications in the United States were Doubleday's A Collection of Essays by George Orwell from 1954, 1956's The Orwell Reader, Fiction, Essays, and Reportage from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Penguin's Selected Essays in 1957; re-released in 1962 with the title Inside the Whale and Other Essays and in abridged form as ...

  8. Category:Essay books - Wikipedia

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    Essay collections (3 C, 266 P) D. Découvertes Gallimard (35 P) Pages in category "Essay books" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.

  9. Arguably - Wikipedia

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    Arguably: Essays is a 2011 book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising 107 essays on a variety of political and cultural topics.These essays were previously published in The Atlantic, City Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Newsweek, New Statesman, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, and Vanity ...