The editor of the Atlantic Monthly collected the essays readers had asked to see preserved beyond the magazine’s paper covers. Robert Haven Schauffler’s fiddlers errant, Dallas Lore Sharp’s dawn hunt for turtle eggs for Agassiz, a father’s letter to his freshman son, Owen Wister’s reminiscence and pieces on authors and intensive living show the familiar essay at its best.
A delightful bedside anthology of early-twentieth-century American essay writing. Download the free EPUB.