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A Ved Mehta Reader : The Craft of the Essay
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A Ved Mehta Reader : The Craft of the Essay Paperback - 1998

by Mehta, Ved

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Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this special collection of Mehta's outstanding writing, the distinguished author demonstrates a wide range of possibilities available to the narrative and descriptive writer today. Mehta addresses subjects ranging from religion to politics, education and writing.

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  • Title A Ved Mehta Reader : The Craft of the Essay
  • Author Mehta, Ved
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 1998-08-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47574945-6
  • ISBN 9780300075618 / 0300075618
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.48 x 1.06 in (20.93 x 13.92 x 2.69 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-39079
  • Dewey Decimal Code 824

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 11/01/1998, Page 0

About the author

Ved Mehta is currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford. He was a staff writer on The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994 and has taught literature and history at half a dozen colleges and universities, including Williams, Vassar, and Yale. He is the author of an autobiographical series of books with the omnibus title Continents of Exile, of which the eighth book, Remembering Mr. Shawn`s New Yorker, has just been published. Among his other books are Portrait of India, Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles, and Rajiv Gandhi and Rama`s Kingdom, all obtainable from Yale University Press.

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