Varieties of Prose [antikvár]

PrefaceIn compiling this volume I have incurred numerous debts, first to the authors and pub-lishers who have granted permission for the inclusion of the selections. Others who have helped include Martha Lindeman, Priscilla Schmid, and Róbert Stanbury of the Fairleigh Dickinson University library staff; Professor Edith Heal Berrien of Fairleigh Dickinson University; Professor Gerald Cohen of Borough of Manhattan Community College; Sharon Baumgartner, Edward Daunais, and Curtis Johnson of Scott, Foresman and Company; and Claire Mitchell, who kindly helped with somé of the typing. Thanks are due to all of them. My wife, Barbara Miller Perkins, made suggestions concerning the contents and provided generál support and encouragement.G. B. P.