Beauty is more than skin deep. In this anthology of fiction, science, lore, and just plain gossip, a remarkable range of authors ruminates on the subject that captures everybody's attention. Camille Paglia talks about pagan beauty, Sophia Loren offers a few tips, Edmund Burke waxes philosophical about the qualities of beauty, Toni Morrison has a couple of things to say about Ernest Hemingway's idea of good looks, and Helen Gurley Brown cautions us never to apply lipliner with a dull pencil. Theoretical writings on bosom size, ugliness, and beauty pageants, as well as odes to beauty and two versions of "Beauty and the Beast" make Beauty alluring to every beholder.
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Diane Ackerman is the author of A Natural History of the Senses and A Natural History of Love as well as a host of her own televsions series.
John Miller has edited a number of intriguing anthologies for Chronicle Books, including Lust and White Rabbit. He runs Big Fish Books, a packaging company in San Francisco.
John Miller has edited a number of intriguing anthologies for Chronicle Books, including Lust and White Rabbit. He runs Big Fish Books, a packaging company in San Francisco.
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If you read literature, you probably have most of this,
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I was very excited when I saw this book, anticipating a collection of essays devoted to the discussion of beauty. If I would have looked more closely, however, at Amazon's description, I would've seen that I have most of the writings in here already--Poe, Hemingway, Baudelaire, Paglia, etc. I already have. Annoyingly, the writings don't always directly discuss beauty, but rather contain snippets (and it's somewhat problematic taking these particular snippets out of their original context--that is, cutting it from a novel, from a story, etc.) which, taken out of their intended state (that is, they are no longer whole), become distorted. I believe editorship is a problem here, in that the chosen "abridgments" don't contain the original essence of the texts. Still, someone looking for a hodge-podge or an assortment of various treatments on the topic of beauty, and who doesn't have a large library at home containing the writings, would find this very useful.
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