''The book I autograph most.'' --Warren Buffett
''Takes Warren's brilliant letters to a still-higher level.'' --Carol Loomis
''A very important book.'' --Bill Ackman
Warren Buffett is the Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway, a $70+ billion holding company engaged in a variety of businesses. Lawrence Cunningham is a Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School.
"A brief literary encyclopedia" clarifies: "An essay is a prose work of small volume and free composition, which treats a particular topic and represents an attempt to convey individual impressions and considerations one way or another connected with it."
There are books that you just need to read, there are those that are best swallowed, and only a few should be chewed and digested.
Michael Lee
store owner
The word "essay" came into Russian from French and historically goes back to the Latin word exagium (weighing). French ezzai can literally translate the words experience, trial, attempt, sketch, sketch.