A Letter To A Sea Captain by Christopher Morley
Story type: Essay(To D.W.B.)DEAR CAPTAIN:You are the most modest of men, but even at the risk of arousing your displeasure we have it on our mind to say something about y ...
Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author’s own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal.
Dempsey Vs. Carpentier by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayThe race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but as Frank Adams once remarked, the betting is best that way. The event at Boyle’s Thirty A ...
Thoughts In The Subway by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayIWe hear people complain about the subway: its brutal competitive struggle, its roaring fury and madness. We think they have not sufficiently considered ...
A City Note-Book (New York) by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayWell, now let us see in what respect we are richer to-day than we were yesterday.Coming down Fifth Avenue on top of a bus, we saw a man absorbed in a boo ...
By The Fireplace by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayWe were contemplating our fireplace, in which, some of the hearth-bricks are rather irregularly disposed; and we said to ourself, perhaps the brick-layer ...
Letting Out The Furnace by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayThe prudent commuter (and all commuters are prudent, for the others are soon weeded out by the rigours of that way of life) keeps the furnace going until ...
Fallacious Meditations On Criticism by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayIThere are never, at any time and place, more than a few literary critics of genuine incision, taste, and instinct; and these qualities, rare enough in t ...
Books Of The Sea by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayThe National Marine League asks, What are the ten best books of the sea? Without pondering very deeply on the matter, and confining ourself to prose, we ...
The Permanence Of Poetry by Christopher Morley
Story type: EssayWe heard a critic remark that no great sonnets are being written nowadays. What (he said morosely) is there in the way of a recent sonnet that is worthy ...