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| Preface | |
| Introduction: Reading and Writing Essays | |
| History and Context | |
| Pleasures of the Essay | |
| Types of Essays | |
| Reading Essays | |
| Reading Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels." | |
| Writing Essays | |
| Arriving at an Interpretation | |
| How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
| Of Studies | |
| Growing Up | |
| Notes of a Native Son | |
| Road Warrior | |
| Toys | |
| Attending a World | |
| Into the Electric Millennium | |
| I Want a Wife | |
| Femininity | |
| Influenza 1918 | |
| The Wound in the Face | |
| Letter to His Son | |
| Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
| Calculated Risks | |
| Burl's | |
| How We Listen | |
| Natural Selection | |
| The Geography of the Imagination | |
| Marrying Absurd | |
| On Self-Respect | |
| Living Like Weasels | |
| No Man Is an Island | |
| Learning to Read and Write | |
| Joyas Voladoras | |
| Of Our Spiritual Striving | |
| Lights of the Long Night | |
| About Men | |
| Speech to the Troops at Tilbury | |
| Living with Music | |
| Nature | |
| Never Do That to a Book | |
| The Value of Science | |
| Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog | |
| Arriving at Perfection | |
| The Interpretation of Dreams | |
| The Landscape of History | |
| The Middle Way | |
| The Company Man | |
| More than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island | |
| On the Pleasure of Hating | |
| The Colonel | |
| Naps | |
| Salvation | |
| Nowhere Man | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| Essay #189 | |
| On Seeing England for the First Time | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
| I Have a Dream | |
| On Discovery | |
| The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale | |
| A Bachelor's Complaint | |
| You Are What You Say | |
| On Ben Franklin's Virtues | |
| Coming Home Again | |
| The Curse of Talent | |
| The Gettysburg Address | |
| The Stone Horse | |
| The Morals of the Prince | |
| The Communist Manifesto | |
| Shul/School | |
| Portrait of an Ideal World | |
| Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| Of Smells | |
| Are You Somebody | |
| Politics and the English Language | |
| Shooting an Elephant | |
| The Din in the Head | |
| The Allegory of the Cave | |
| The Necessary Enemy | |
| The Medium is the Metaphor | |
| Between the Sexes, A Great Divide | |
| Aria: Memories of a Bilingual Childhood | |
| Letter to His Son | |
| The Inheritance of Tools | |
| What Secrets Tell | |
| Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott | |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | |
| Verbal/Nonverbal | |
| Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination | |
| A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? | |
| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
| Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space | |
| On Being Black and Middle Class | |
| A Modest Proposal | |
| Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart | |
| Mother Tongue | |
| The Corner of the Eye | |
| Why I Went to the Woods | |
| University Days | |
| And Ain't I a Woman | |
| Reading the River | |
| from "Listening" | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| The Duke of Deception | |
| The Death of the Moth | |
| Professions for Women | |
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