<b>The text of this book is not available in this moment.</b><br/><img src="/Content/books/thumbs/6960.jpg" style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:25px;float:left"><u>Oxford Book of American Essays</u><br><span>Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of Horace. It seems to be an attempt to show off the Americans as writers. </span><div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />