Trifles make perfection
the selected essays of Joseph Wechsberg
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Morowitz, David A. - Contributor
Publication
1999 - David R. Godine, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
72,250 words, Guess
Page Count
289 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL368655M
- ISBN-101567920926
- OCLC Control Number39477687
- OCLC Control Numbertriflesmakeperfe0000wech
- Library of Congress Control Number98029258
and 2 more
- LibraryThing398185
- Goodreads979624
Classifications
- DDC940
- LCCD1051 .W43 1999
Description
"A Moravian by birth, a musician by avocation, a writer by choice, and a bon vivant almost by instinct, Joseph Wechsberg was among a generation of writers that included M. F. K. Fisher, A. J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Ludwig Bemelmans. Many of them found a home for their work at The New Yorker and were given carte blanche to tackle any subject they found appealing."--BOOK JACKET. "Wechsberg was a connoisseur in the old Continental sense of the word, a man who valued perfection for its own sake, seeing its quest as worthy and its attainment as eminently possible. Born in 1907 into a wealthy, assimilated Jewish family, he saw his comfortable life threatened by World War I and then extinguished by Hitler's annexation of his native Czechoslovakia. He came to America with only a basic command of English but an impressive understanding of what was happening in Europe. His most powerful essays, describing the tragic political fragmentation of Europe at the end of World War II, are never strident or bitter; his appreciations of Europe's finer offering are a sheer delight."--BOOK JACKET.
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