Fifty Great Essays

by Diyanni, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780321093738
• ISBN10: 0321093739
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

KEY FEATURE: "Fifty Great Essays" offers an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's distinguished Penguin Academic Series, sharing the low-cost, high-quality goals of the widely-admired Penguin Classics series. A wide range of essays at an affordable price, "Fifty Great Essays" offers readers an excellent introduction into the world of great essay-writing. Selections range from classic essays such as E.B. White's, " Beauty" and Frederick Douglass', " Learning to Read and Write" to contemporary essays such as Mary Wollstonecraft's, " A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and Nancy Mairs, " On Being a Cripple." General readers.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Reading and Writing Essay's	1	(1)
History and Context	1	(4)
Pleasures of the Essay	5	(2)
Types of Essays	7	(2)
Reading Essays	9	(6)
Reading Annie Dillard's ``Living Like Weasels''	10	(5)
Writing Essays	15	(15)
The Qualities of Good Writing	15	(1)
An Overview of the Writing Process	16	(1)
Planning	16	(1)
Drafting	17	(1)
Revising	18	(1)
Writing from Reading-An Example	19	(11)
Arriving at an Interpretation	30	(5)
Susan Sontag's ``A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?''	31	(4)
Graduation	35	(13)
Maya Angelou
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	48	(12)
Gloria Anzaldua
Of Studies	60	(3)
Francis Bacon
Notes of a Native Son	63	(21)
James Baldwin
Road Warrior	84	(4)
Dave Barry
Femininity	88	(6)
Susan Brownmiller
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	94	(8)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Burl's	102	(11)
Bernard Cooper
Marrying Absurd	113	(5)
Joan Didion
Living Like Weasels	118	(6)
Annie Dillard
Learning to Read and Write	124	(7)
Frederick Douglass
About Men	131	(5)
Gretel Ehrlich
The Flow of the River	136	(8)
Loren Eiseley
Living with Music	144	(10)
Ralph Ellison
Nature	154	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I Believe	158	(10)
E.M. Forster
The Company Man	168	(3)
Ellen Goodman
More than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island	171	(6)
Mary Gordon
Women's Brains	177	(8)
Stephen Jay Gould
The Courage of Turtles	185	(8)
Edward Hoagland
Salvation	193	(4)
Langston Hughes
The Declaration of Independence	197	(9)
Thomas Jefferson
On Seeing England for the First Time	206	(12)
Jamaica Kincaid
Letter from Birmingham Jail	218	(18)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
On Discovery	236	(3)
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Gettysburg Address	239	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
The Morals of the Prince	241	(10)
Niccolo Machiavelli
On Being a Cripple	251	(14)
Nancy Mairs
The Way to Rainy Mountain	265	(7)
N. Scott Momaday
Of Smells	272	(4)
Michel de Montaigne
Shooting an Elephant	276	(9)
George Orwell
The Seam of the Snail	285	(4)
Cynthia Ozick
Heading into Darkness Once Again	289	(4)
Richard Rodriquez
Under the Influence	293	(14)
Scott Russell Sanders
The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold	307	(6)
Richard Selzer
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	313	(4)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space	317	(5)
Brent Staples
Mother Tongue	322	(7)
Amy Tan
Different Words, Different Worlds	329	(17)
Deborah Tannen
Why I Went to the Woods	346	(7)
Henry David Thoreau
University Days	353	(7)
James Thurber
Aren't I a Woman	360	(3)
Sojourner Truth
Reading the River	363	(4)
Mark Twain
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	367	(9)
Alice Walker
Once More to the Lake	376	(8)
E.B. White
Only One Life	384	(6)
Tom Wolfe
A Vindication of the Rights of Women	390	(4)
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Death of the Moth	394	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Writing and Reading	398	(15)
Richard Wright
Credits	413	(4)
Index	417