# The Art of the Personal Essay

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- Book: [The Art of the Personal Essay](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillip-lopate/the-art-of-the-personal-essay) ([The Art of the Personal Essay.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillip-lopate/the-art-of-the-personal-essay.md))
- Authors: [Phillip Lopate](https://www.bookquiver.com/phillip-lopate)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-8542-339-7
- Pages: 832
- Published: 1997-01-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by...