"The Norton Book of Personal Essays（HC）" Joseph Epstein (ed.)／Norton(1997)
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- ・'The Personal Essays : A Form of Discoverry' by Joseph Epstein
- （１）Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Italian without a Master"
- （２）Max Beerbohm (1872-1972) "Something Defeasible"
- （３）Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Joseph Conrad"
- （４）Willa Cather (1873-1947) "A Chance Meeting"
- （５）Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The Dream"
- （６）H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Reflections on Journalism"
- （７）Virginia Woolf (1882-1956) "Leslie Stephen"
- （８）Rebecca West (1892-1983) "A Visit to a Godmother"
- （９）Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) "St. Augustine and the Bullfight"
- （10）Drothy Parker (1893-1963) "The Middle or Blue Period"
- （11）Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) "A Perfect to Persius"
- （12）F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1941) "Sleeping and Waking"
- （13）Dawn Powell (1897-1965) "What Are You Doing in My Dreams?"
- （14）E. B. White (1899-1985) "Once More to the Lake"
- （15）Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1966) "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
- （16）Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) "In Quest of Beer"
- （17）Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) "Revisiting Greece"
- （18）George Orwell (1903-1950) "The Moon under Water"
- （19）A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) "A Good Appetite"
- （20）Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) "Chic - English, French and American"
- （21）Graham Greene (1904-1991) "The Lost Childhood"
- （22）Emily Hahn (b. 1905) "The Stranger"
- （23）Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) "The Angry Winter"
- （24）M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) "The Flaw"
- （25）Eudora Welty (b. 1909) "The Little Store"
- （26）Barbara Tuchmen (1912-1993) "An Author's Mail"
- （27）Lewis Thomas (1913-1993) "Notes on Punctuation"
- （28）Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) "Living with Music"
- （29）Doris Lessing (b. 1919) "My Father"
- （30）William Zinsser (b. 1922) "Jury Duty"
- （31）Truman Capote (1924-1984) "Tangier"
- （32）James Baldwin (1924-1987) "Stranger in the Village"
- （33）L. Rust Hills (b. 1924) "How to Eat an Ice-Cream Cone"
- （34）Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "The King of the Birds"
- （35）Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928) "The Lesson of the Master"
- （36）Jean Hollander (b. 1928) "Cops and Writers"
- （37）Dan Jacobson (b. 1929) "The Vanishing Act"
- （38）Jeremy Bernstein (b. 1929) "Take the 'A' Train"
- （39）John Gregory Dunne (b. 1932) "Quintana"
- （40）V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932) "In the Middle of the Journey"
- （41）Oliver Sacks (b.1933) "The Bull on the Mountain"
- （42）Joan Didion (b. 1934) "On Keeping a Notebook"
- （43）Joseph Epstein (b. 1937) "I Like a Gershwin Tune"
- （44）Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) "The Bey"
- （45）Phylis Rose (b. 1942) "Tools of Torture"
- （46）Nancy Mairs (b. 1943) "Ron Her Son"
- （47）Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944) "Going Home Again"
- （48）Anne Dillard (b. 1945) "Living Like Weasels"
- （49）Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945) "The Inheritance of Tools"
- （50）Barry Lopez (b. 1945) "Grown Men"
- （51）Vicki Hearne (b. 1946) "Oyez a Beaumont"
- （52）Shelby Steele (b. 1946) "On Being Black and Middle Class"
- （53）Amy Tan (b. 1952) "Mother Tongue"