50 World’s Greatest Essays : Collectable Edition Paperback – 1 August 2018

50 World’s Greatest Essays has essays by so many great essayist. When I bought this book, I was prepared to be disappointed because I am never really happy with anthologies but when I opened the book and saw it to be full of essays by writers such as Francis Bacon, Virginia Woolf, George Elliot, I was pleasantly surprised. It is a big book for sure but considering the content, it did not take me much time to read it. It is an amazing collection of essays from famous authors and I understand now why this books falls in the category of Collector’s editions. The essays are not all focused on a single subject and one can find much of variety. The prose differs from essay to essay but one thing is for sure, the entire book is full of depth. I really liked the Death of Moth and Why I write but there were plenty of other essays on the favorite list too. I am probably going to buy the other collections by this publisher because along with being a good compilation of essays, the book had quality pages and printing as well. The cover is a bit simple but it does serve the purpose.

Essay writing is also a form of art, it requires a specific talent to create a beautiful and effective essay that could keep the reader's interest and earn their like effortlessly. 50 World's Greatest Essays brings you fifty greatest and praise worthy essay works under one cover. The book is useful to be a reference material as well as guide to proper essay writing style. If not, it makes a great reading choice for its well compiled collection and intriguing context. It would be a great addition to your collection of books!

Good bookINTERST and useful.

This book - 50 World’s Greatest Essays – would serve as the best reference source for content and context. The effort behind this book to collect, select and sort so as to compile the most effective collection of essays is evident and is admirable. The essays are on varied topics forming a wider horizon, it is not a field centric which makes it all the more a very good choice to pick. The fifty carefully chosen collection include masterpieces like Friendship by Joseph Adison and Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and so on. I would love to recommend it to all.

Great book ... must read for all kind literature lover

Some essays are goodwhile some are very old.

Good book received in good condition.

A glimpse of writers featured in this anthology would certainly take your breath away, if you are a serious and passionate reader. This anthology features writers starting from Montaigne (first essay) to George Orwell (last essay). There are numbers of impressive names also, like Francis Bacon, Daniel Dafoe, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf et al.But, all these can be ruined by number of things, the connecting thread is, of course, the editing. I'm giving a few examples.1) A book of anthology is good not just by the virtue of featured writers - a lot of work is there for the editors to be done. You just can't collect 50 essays from different sources and print them between two covers (all of them are separately available in internet, all of them are out of copyright, by the way). You have to CONTEXTUALIZE them, you have to write some comprehensive introduction for the readers who are facing an author for the first time.2) No information is given about the context of each essays apart from its date of publication and the original book. No information is given about the original language in which those are written, if translated, who is the translator, what is the year of translation. If you don't know, for instance, that Montaigne wrote in French and Freud wrote in German - these two essays featured side by side can deceive a new reader as being written in English. Omitting the name of translator is a serious offence, as the act of translation is a very important thing about the essay. Also, the date of translation is important - these things help to locate a text.Those of you who are familiar with scholarly and academic books - this is a plain waste of money because this pretentious anthology has no editor to look for these things (no name of the editor is given). A book without these things can damage the experience of a new reader a lot - and I'm sure, the lucrative cheap price and these kind of impressive advertisement is already doing this. There are no copyright information in this book - that means these are published without any permission (As I've said before, copyright of the essays are over, so it's like collecting 50 texts and printing them together).If you are reading just for fun and time pass, then I don't know. But if you are a serious and attentive reader, then this is a plain waste of money.And also, please don't gift this collections (they have another book of stories, poetry etc) to young people - as I've said before, these can ruin the possibility of engaging seriously with a text in future.