Mortality, comprising essays written in the wake of his cancer diagnosis, was published the following year.
(In a book due out this fall, comprising essays on regret by prominent personages, Zuckerman writes that his greatest one is not having taken music lessons).
Larbaud's other works comprise essays and reflections inspired by his travels, such as Jaune, bleu, blanc (1927; "Yellow, Blue, White") and Aux couleurs de Rome (1938).
'Latest Readings' comprises 30 essays written, as the title suggests, in the saddest of circumstances.
Subtitled "A Writer in the Garden," it comprises 72 essays arranged alphabetically from Artichokes through Toads and on to Weeds.
Kierkegaard's "Either" comprises several essays on the value of hedonism, a k a aestheticism; its companion piece, "Or," argues in favor of social and moral responsibility.
The work comprises three essays that outline the author's ideas about the role of democracy in establishing a new cultural foundation for America.
This eternity is all too present in another book that Mr. Sobin has recently published, "Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc," which comprises 26 essays inspired by remnants of earlier life in the region, from prehistory through Roman times.
His other works include Kleine Schriften, 4 vol. (1967 77; Philosophical Hermeneutics, selected essays from vol. 1 3); Dialogue and Dialectic (1980), comprising eight essays on Plato; and Reason in the Age of Science (1982), a translation of essays drawn from several German editions.
