The pleasures of reading have been the special province of essayists from Montaigne onwards.

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Ms Fadiman and Mr Epstein both belong in the line of informal, conversational essayists, their artfulness disguised in apparent spontaneity.

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The book is published by one of its essayists, Phil Hellmuth Jr.

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After returning to the U.S., Hubbard wrote a series called Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, brief biographies of poets, essayists, artists, philosophers, famous women and musicians, which grew to 14 volumes.

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