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At Large and At Small

Familiar Essays

By Anne Fadiman

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| Paperback | 9780374531317

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In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distiContinue

In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay—a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country.

Many of these essays were composed “under the influence” of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother’s homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac’s coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father’s nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll’s mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.

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  • From ice cream to the Inuit

    At Large and At Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist by Anne Fadiman 240pp, Allen Lane, pounds 12.99 Like all women of good sense, Anne Fadiman admits to a massive crush on Charles Lamb, the early 19th-century East India clerk, devoted brother a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • At Large and At Small

    Fadiman sees herself as at once reviving and feminising the "familiar essay" as written by Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt: subjective but also about a subject, containing "equal measures" of the personal and the critical, the heart and the head. Th ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 240 Pages
  • Edition: First Edition
  • ISBN-10: 0374531315
  • ISBN-13: 9780374531317
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: May 27, 2008
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
  • In other languages: other languages 简体书
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