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02913cam a22002898i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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ta |
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210203s2020 vau 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2020014033 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781604191288 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1604191287 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1134853122 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3555.P78A6 |
| Item number |
2020 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Epstein, Joseph, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1937- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Gallimaufry : |
| Remainder of title |
a collection of essays, reviews, bits / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Joseph Epstein. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Edinburg, VA : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Axios Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxi, 505 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Part One: Essays -- The Bookish Life (2018) -- Body without Soul (2020) -- Chicago, Then and Now (2018) -- Jewish Jokes (2018) -- Short Attention Span (2017) -- Intellectual Marines in Little Magazines (2008) -- The American Language (2018) -- University of Chicago Days (2017) -- Frittering Prizes (1997) -- The Tzaddick of the Intellectuals (2017) -- The Menace of Political Correctness (2019) -- Hail, Mommsen (2018) -- Big Julie (2019) -- Our Gladiators (2018) -- Diamonds are Forever (2016) -- What's the Story? (2017) -- University Presidents (2019) -- Immaturity on Campus (2020) -- Heinrich Heine (2018) -- Joseph Roth (2018) -- Stefan Zweig (2019) -- Vasily Grossman (2011) -- Evelyn Waugh (2017) -- P. G. Wodehouse (2018) -- Tom Wolfe (2018) -- Susan Sontag, Savant-Idiot (2019) -- Lionel Trilling (2019) -- Proust's Duchesses (2018) -- Denis Diderot (2019) -- Isaiah Berlin (2016) -- Johnson-Boswell (2019) -- Stop Your Blubbering (2019) -- George Gershwin (2009) -- Nelson Algren (2019) -- Essayism (2018) -- Alcibaides (2019) -- Big Bill Tilden (2016) -- The Semicolon (2019) -- The Meritocracy (2019) -- Part Two: Bits and Pieces -- Close Shaves (2018) -- Location, Location, Location (2018) -- Milt Rosenberg (2018) -- Only a Hobby (2018) -- Hello, Dolly (2018) -- Dirty Words (2018) -- See Me Out (2018) -- Shabby Chic (2017) -- Thoughts and Prayers (2018) -- Table It (2018) -- Don't Hide Your Eyes, Weaponize (2019) -- Does Not Hug (2017) -- In Bad Taste or Not, I'll Keep My Comic Sans (2019) -- Yidiosyncrasies (2018) -- Sinfood (2017) -- A Nobel Prize for Marriage (2018) -- Part Three: Edward Redux -- Edward Remembered (2019). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. 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. Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits contains 58 essays on a wide variety of subjects, each a pure pleasure to read"-- |
| 600 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Epstein, Joseph, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1937- |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Literature |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
American essays |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
American essays |
| Chronological subdivision |
21st century. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
