One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)

by DiYanni, Robert

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9780321276667

ISBN10:

0321276663

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2005

Publisher(s):

Longman

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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.

Preface

INTRODUCTION: READING AND WRITING ESSAYS

(32)

History and Context

(4)

Pleasures of the Essay

(2)

Types of Essays

(2)

Reading Essays

(6)

Reading Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels"

(5)

Writing Essays

(15)

The Qualities of Good Writing

(1)

An Overview of the Writing Process

(1)

Planning

(1)

Drafting

(1)

Revising

(1)

Writing from Reading-An Example

(2)

Freewriting

(2)

Double-Column Notebook

(2)

Writing a Summary

(2)

Going Further

(1)

Observing Details

(1)

Connecting Details

(1)

Making Inferences

(1)

Arriving at art Interpretation

(3)

MAYA ANGELOU

Graduation

(13)

GLORIA ANZALDÚA

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

(14)

FRANCIS BACON

Of Studies

(3)

RUSSELL BAKER

Growing Up

(7)

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

(21)

DAVE BARRY

Road Warrior

(4)

MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Attending a World

(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

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