One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)

by DiYanni, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780321276667
• ISBN10: 0321276663
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-12
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education

Summary

One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academic Series, a series of low-cost, high quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses. Variety. This volume of never before collected contemporary and long-time classic essays provides a wealth of possibilities for instructors and students.

Author Biography

Robert DiYanni is Director of International Services in the Advanced Placement Program at The College Board. Dr. DiYanni, who holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, has taught English and Humanities at a variety of institutions, including NYU, CUNY, and Harvard. He has written and edited more than two dozen books, mostly for college students of writing, literature, and humanities.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
INTRODUCTION: READING AND WRITING ESSAYS	1	(32)
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	(2)
Freewriting	21	(2)
Double-Column Notebook	23	(2)
Writing a Summary	25	(2)
Going Further	27	(1)
Observing Details	27	(1)
Connecting Details	28	(1)
Making Inferences	29	(1)
Arriving at art Interpretation	30	(3)
MAYA ANGELOU
Graduation	33	(13)
GLORIA ANZALDÚA
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	46	(14)
FRANCIS BACON
Of Studies	60	(3)
RUSSELL BAKER
Growing Up	63	(7)
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son	70	(21)
DAVE BARRY
Road Warrior	91	(4)
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
Attending a World	95	(15)
SVEN BIRKERTS
Into the Electronic Millennium	110	(12)
JUDY BRADY
I Want a Wife	122	(3)
SUSAN BROWN MILLER
Femininity	125	(6)
JANE BROX
Influenza 1918	131	(9)
ANGELA CARTER
The Wound in the Face	140	(6)
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood	146	(7)
K.C. COLE
Calculated Risks	153	(10)
BERNARD COOPER
Burl's	163	(11)
AARON COPLAND
How Fie Listen	174	(7)
WILLIAM CR0N0N
The Trouble with Wilderness	181	(26)
CHARLES DARWIN
Natural Selection	207	(13)
GUY DAVENPORT
The Geography of the Imagination	220	(15)
JOAN DIDION
Marrying Absurd	235	(5)
JOAN DIDION
On Self Respect	240	(5)
ANNIE DILLARD
Living Like Weasels	245	(6)
ANNIE DILLARD
Jest and Earnest	251	(5)
JOHN DONNE
No Man Is an Island	256	(3)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Learning to Read and Write	259	(7)
W.E.B. DUBOIS
Of Our Spiritual Striving	266	(9)
GRETEL EHRLICH
About Men	275	(4)
QUEEN ELIZABETH I
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury	279	(2)
RALPH ELLISON
Living with Music	281	(10)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature	291	(4)
ANNE FADIMAN
Never Do That to a Book	295	(6)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Arriving at Perfection	301	(5)
SIGMUND FREUD
The Interpretation of Dreams	306	(9)
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
In the Kitchen	315	(8)
ATUL GAWANDE
Crimson Tide	323	(14)
MALCOLM GLADWELL
The Tipping Point	337	(11)
ELLEN GOODMAN
The Company Man	348	(3)
MARY GORDON
More than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island	351	(6)
STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Women's Brains	357	(8)
WILLIAM HAZLITT
On the Pleasure of Hating	365	(11)
EDWARD HOAGLAND
The Courage of Turtles	376	(8)
BARBARA HOLLAND
Naps	384	(5)
LANGSTON HUGHES
Salvation	389	(4)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	393	(5)
PICO IYER
Nowhere Man	398	(4)
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Declaration of Independence	402	(9)
JAMAICA KINCAID
On Seeing England for the First Time	411	(12)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Letter from Birmingham Jail	423	(17)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I Have a Dream	440	(5)
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Stone Soup	445	(9)
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
On Discovery	454	(3)
ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF
You Are What You Say	457	(8)
CHARLES LAMB
A Bachelor's Complaint	465	(8)
D.H. LAWRENCE
On Ben Franklin's Virtues	473	(4)
CHANG-RAE LEE
Coming Home Again	477	(11)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Gettysburg Address	488	(2)
BARRY LOPEZ
The Stone Horse	490	(11)
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
The Morals of the Prince	501	(9)
NANCY MAIRS
On Being a Cripple	510	(14)
KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS
The Communist Manifesto	524	(9)
JOHN MCPHEE
from "The Encircled River"	533	(10)
H.L. MENCKEN
Portrait of an Ideal World	543	(5)
HOWARD MINER
Body Ritual Among the Nacirerna	548	(7)
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
The Way to Rainy Mountain	555	(7)
MICHEL DE MONPAIGNE
Of Smells	562	(4)
GEORGE ORWELL
Politics and the English Language	566	(14)
GEORGE ORWELL
Shooting an Elephant	580	(8)
CYNTHIA OZICK
The Seam of the Snail	588	(4)
ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH
The Spider and the Wasp	592	(6)
PLATO
The Allegory of the Cave	598	(5)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
The Necessary Enemy	603	(6)
ANNA QUINDLEN
Between the Sexes, A Great Divide	609	(4)
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ
Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood	613	(21)
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
Under the Influence	634	(14)
LUC SAINTE
What Secrets Tell	648	(8)
CHIEF SEATTLE
Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott	656	(4)
RICHARD SELZER
The Masked Marvels Last Toehold	660	(6)
LEONARD SHLAIN
Nonverbal/Verbal	666	(7)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO
Landscape, History; and the Pueblo Imagination	673	(9)
SUSAN SONTAG
A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?	682	(4)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	686	(4)
BRENT STAPLES
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space	690	(5)
SHELBY STEELE
On Being Black and Middle Class	695	(10)
JONATHAN SWIFT
A Modest Proposal	705	(12)
MARGARET TALBOT
Les Tiès Riches Heures de Martha Stewart	717	(12)
AMY TAN
Mother Tongue	729	(7)
LEWIS THOMAS
The Corner of the Ere	736	(5)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Why I Went to the Woods	741	(7)
JAMES THURBER
University Days	748	(7)
SOJOURNER TRUTH
Aren't I a Woman?	755	(3)
MARK TWAIN
Reading the River	758	(4)
ALICE WALKER
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self	762	(9)
EUDORA WELTY
from "Listening"	771	(8)
E.B. WHITE
Once More to the Lake	779	(7)
E.B. WHITE
The Ring of Time	786	(9)
TOM WOLFE
Only One Life	795	(6)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
A Vindication of the Rights of Women	801	(4)
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Death of the Moth	805	(4)
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Professions for Women	809	(6)
RICHARD WRIGHT
Writing and Reading	815	(14)
Credits	829	(8)
Index	837