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Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)
ISBN: 9780321261625 | 0321261623
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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KEY FEATURE:Fifty Great Essaysoffers 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 Essaysoffers readers an excellent introduction into the world of great essay-writing. Selections range from classic essayssuch as E.B. White's, "Beauty" and Frederick Douglass', "Learning to Read and Write" to contemporary essayssuch as Mary Wollstonecraft's, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and Nancy Mairs, "On Being a Cripple." General readers.
| Preface | xi | ||||
| INTRODUCTION: READING AND WRITING ESSAYS | 1 | (30) | |||
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| 29 | (2) | |||
| MAYA ANGELOU | |||||
| 31 | (13) | |||
| GLORIA ANZALDÚA | |||||
| 44 | (14) | |||
| FRANCIS BACON | |||||
| 58 | (3) | |||
| DAVE BARRY | |||||
| 61 | (4) | |||
| SUSAN BROWNMILLER | |||||
| 65 | (6) | |||
| JUDITH ORTIZ COFER | |||||
| 71 | (7) | |||
| BERNARD COOPER | |||||
| 78 | (11) | |||
| JOAN DIDION | |||||
| 89 | (5) | |||
| ANNIE DILLARD | |||||
| 94 | (6) | |||
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS | |||||
| 100 | (7) | |||
| GRETEL EHRLICH | |||||
| 107 | (5) | |||
| RALPH ELLISON | |||||
| 112 | (10) | |||
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | |||||
| 122 | (5) | |||
| HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. | |||||
| 127 | (8) | |||
| ATUL GAWANDE | |||||
| 135 | (14) | |||
| MALCOLM GLADWELL | |||||
| 149 | (11) | |||
| ELLEN GOODMAN | |||||
| 160 | (3) | |||
| MARY GORDON | |||||
| 163 | (6) | |||
| STEPHEN JAY GOULD | |||||
| 169 | (8) | |||
| WILLIAM HAZLITT | |||||
| 177 | (11) | |||
| EDWARD HOAGLAND | |||||
| 188 | (8) | |||
| LANGSTON HUGHES | |||||
| 196 | (4) | |||
| PICO IYER | |||||
| 200 | (4) | |||
| JAMAICA KINCAID | |||||
| 204 | (12) | |||
| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. | |||||
| 216 | (18) | |||
| MAXINE HONG KINGSTON | |||||
| 234 | (3) | |||
| CHARLES LAMB | |||||
| 237 | (7) | |||
| CHANG-RAE LEE | |||||
| 244 | (11) | |||
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | |||||
| 255 | (2) | |||
| NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI | |||||
| 257 | (10) | |||
| NANCY MAIRS | |||||
| 267 | (14) | |||
| N. SCOTT MOMADAY | |||||
| 281 | (7) | |||
| MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE | |||||
| 288 | (4) | |||
| GEORGE ORWELL | |||||
| 292 | (9) | |||
| CYNTHIA OZICK | |||||
| 301 | (4) | |||
| ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH | |||||
| 305 | (6) | |||
| SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS | |||||
| 311 | (14) | |||
| RICHARD SELZER | |||||
| 325 | (6) | |||
| SUSAN SONTAG | |||||
| 331 | (4) | |||
| ELIZABETH CADY STANTON | |||||
| 335 | (4) | |||
| BRENT STAPLES | |||||
| 339 | (5) | |||
| JONATHAN SWIFT | |||||
| 344 | (9) | |||
| AMY TAN | |||||
| 353 | (7) | |||
| JAMES THURBER | |||||
| 360 | (7) | |||
| SOJOURNER TRUTH | |||||
| 367 | (3) | |||
| ALICE WALKER | |||||
| 370 | (9) | |||
| E.B. WHITE | |||||
| 379 | (7) | |||
| MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT | |||||
| 386 | (4) | |||
| VIRGINIA WOOLF | |||||
| 390 | (4) | |||
| RICHARD WRIGHT | |||||
| 394 | (15) | |||
| Credits | 409 | (4) | |||
| Index | 413 |
