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    Could anyone recommend me some personal essays?

    I've read The Art of the Personal Essay and I loved it. I'm just not sure where to go from here. What are some well known personal essays?

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    I too have The Art of the Personal Essay. I can't say I've read it through, but I have glanced through it, at least I did several years ago when it came out. It's a fine collecton of an under appreciated art form. I'm not sure I can recommend any other, except some of D.H. Lawrence's essays. His good ones are mostly travel related: Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916), Sea and Sardinia (1921), Mornings in Mexico (1927), Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian essays (1932).
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    Virginia Woolf is fantastic. Try The Death of the Moth anthology.

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