5 favorite Essay Titles in "The Art of the Personal Essay"

5 favorites:

· Consolation to His Wife, page 17.

The messenger you sent with tiding of the death of our little daughter apparently missed me on his road to Athens, and consequently I learned about the child only when I arrived in Tanagra.

· An Essay on the Noble Science of Self- Justification, page 146.

Endowed as the fair sex indisputably are, with a natural genius for the invaluable art of self-justification, it may not be displeasing to them to see its rising perfection evinced by an attempt to reduce it to a science.

· Aunt Harriet, page 393.

When she got old and ill my grandmother grew frightened of being buried alive and she constantly asked for assurance that she would be given an autopsy.

· Once a Tramp, Always… page 546.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse


· Street Haunting, page 256.

No one perhaps has ever felt passionately toward a lead pencil.


Honorary:

Of Books, page 46.

A solitude of the country, page 141

Going Out for a Walk, page 237.

Hashish in Marseilles, page. 375.

Walking, page 480.

The Crack – Up, page 520.

My Confession, page 534.