AMERICAN CLASSIC LITERATURE :: MODERN ESSAYS: AMERICAN CLASSIC LITERATURE :: MODERN ESSAYS

I usually concluded that would not be quite fair. I have not been overscrupulous in this matter, for the essay is a mood rather than a form; the frontier between the essay and the short story is as imperceptible as is at present the once famous Mason and Dixon line. Indeed, in that pleasant lowland country between the two empires lie (to my way of thinking) some of the most fertile fields of prose—fiction that expresses feeling and character and setting rather than action and plot; fiction beautifully ripened by the lingering mild sunshine of the essayist's mood. This is fiction, I might add, extremely unlikely to get into the movies. I think of short stories such as George Gissing's, in that too little known volume The House of Cobwebs, which I read again and again at midnight with unfailing delight; fall asleep over; forget; and again re-read with undiminished satisfaction. They have no brilliance of phrase, no smart surprises, no worked-up 'situations' which have to be taken at high speed to pass without breakdown over their brittle bridgework of credibility. They have only the modest and faintly melancholy savor of life itself.
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MODERN ESSAYS
AMERICAN CLASSIC LITERATURE :: MODERN ESSAYS
By John Macy

MODERN ESSAYS SELECTED BY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Author: John Macy
William Allen White
Rupert Brooke
Don Marquis
David W. Bone
William McFee
Joyce Kilmer
Joseph Conrad
A. P. Herbert
O. W. Firkins
Hilaire Belloc
William Osler
Stephen Leacock
Harry Morgan Ayres
Thomas Burke
A. A. Milne
Max Beerbohm
Stuart P. Sherman
H. M. Tomlinson
Louise Imogen Guiney
Stewart Edward White
Marian Storm
George Santayana
Simeon Strunsky
George Saintsbury
Bertrand Russell
Philip Guedalla
Robert Palfrey Utter
Logan Pearsall Smith
James Branch Cabell
Robert Cortes Holliday
Harry Esty Dounce
Heywood Broun

Editor: Christopher Morley

Language: English

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