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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Lopate, Phillip, [date] editor.

Title: The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.

Description: First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2020

Identifiers: LCCN 2020002258 (print). LCCN 2020002259 (ebook). ISBN 9781524747268 (hardcover). ISBN 9781524747275 (ebook).

Subjects: LCSH: American essays.

Classification: LCC PS682 .G58 2020 (print) | LCC PS682 (ebook) | DDC 814/.009—dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2020002258

LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2020002259

Ebook ISBN 9781524747275

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