The Best English Essays

A SELECTION FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES.

A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAYS.

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THE BEST TALES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.

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A SELECTION

FROM

THE BEST

ENGLISH ESSAYS

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH PROSE STYLE

CHOSEN AND ARRANGED

WITH

HISTORICAL & CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

By

SHERWIN

CODY

EDITOR OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHORT STORIES," AND AUTHOR

OF THE ART OF WRITING AND SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG, PH.D.,

Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst College