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Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends in shriveling the heart. Of the seven deadly si...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
144
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195158121
EAN Code
9780195158120
ISBN #
5
Is it possible to have too many friends? Is your spouse supposed to be your best friend? How far should you go to help a friend in need? And how do you end a friendship that has run its course?In a wickedly entertaining anatomy of friendship in its contemporary guises, Joseph Epstein uncovers the ri...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
10
In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These f...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
9
A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip—from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander—by one of our “great essayists” (David Brooks)To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life—envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship—the...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN #
0618721940
EAN Code
9780618721948
ISBN #
8
Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it. With ample humor and insight, Epstein uncover...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN #
0395944171
EAN Code
9780395944172
ISBN #
7
What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts.Contents:1...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Paul Dry Books
ISBN #
1589880358
EAN Code
9781589880351
ISBN #
6
In Fabulous Small Jews, the best-selling author Joseph Epstein has produced eighteen charming, magical, and finely detailed stories. They are populated by lawyers, professors, scrap-iron dealers, dry cleaners, all men of a certain age who feel themselves adrift in the radically changed values of the...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
0618446583
EAN Code
9780618446582
ISBN #
4
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget ...
Author
Joseph Epstein
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
603
Publisher
Axios Press
ISBN #
160419068X
EAN Code
9781604190687
ISBN #
3
Author
Joseph Epstein
ISBN #
0195308654
…rbons against Napoleon III's Second Empire (18511871), quit political life and retreated to his castle (Chteau de Tocqueville). Against this image of Tocqueville, biographer Joseph Epstein has concluded: "Tocqueville could never bring himself to serve a man he considered a usurper and despot...
Joseph Epstein (born January 9, 1937 in Chicago) is an essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's The ...