Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both are short less than 100 pages--and the same size and shape. Further, both works are in essay form and appeared in magazines prior to publication as volumes. But they are as different as the two cities they deal with. Where White was soft, Algren is hard; where the former wrote quietly, lightly, and as a New Yorker, Algren speaks loudly and unhappily, and beneath his smooth flow of prose there is violent opinion...
...little wonder that he finds it a town of "hustlers," "still an outlaw's capital." He has tied his own feelings about the city, a number of interesting anecdotes, and his violent emotional approach into a very readable, even fascinating essay with the string of brilliant and sharp description. He has paced his essay at high speed, with an intense, perceptible rhythm some may find too metallic...
...disagree with the author's opinion of Chicago and still enjoy the hour or so required to read this essay...
...Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (Jan. 31, 1886): ". . . An illustrated historical essay rather than a novel...
...Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer (June 22, 1890): ". . . A most enjoyable and instructive essay...