Encyclopaedic Biographies of World Great Essayists

An essay is usually a short piece of writing which is quite often written from an author''s personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. A...