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Twenty-Five Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)

ISBN: 9780321261632 | 0321261631
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
A compact collection of essays at an affordable price, Twenty-Five Great Essaysoffers readers an excellent models of good writing and springboards to student writing. Selections range from classic essayssuch as E.B. White's, "Beauty" and Frederick Douglass', "Learning to Read and Write," to contemporary essayssuch as Joan Didian's, "Marrying Absurd" and Stephen Jay Gould's, "Women's Brains." General readers.

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Prefaceix
INTRODUCTION: READING AND WRITING ESSAYS1(30)
History and Context
1(4)
Pleasures of the Essay
... MORE5(2)
Types of Essays
7(2)
Reading Essays
9(6)
Reading Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels"
10(5)
Writing Essays
15(14)
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
28(1)
Arriving at an Interpretation
29(2)
FRANCIS BACON
Of Studies
31(3)
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
34(7)
JOAN DIDION
Marrying Absurd
41(5)
ANNIE DILLARD
Living Like Weasels
46(6)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Learning to Read and Write
52(7)
GRETEL EHRLICH
About Men
59(5)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Arriving at Perfection
64(5)
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
In the Kitchen
69(8)
STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Women's Brains
77(8)
WILLIAM HAZLITT
On the Pleasure of Hating
85(11)
LANGSTON HUGHES
Salvation
96(4)
JAMAICA KINCAID
On Seeing England for the First Time
100(12)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
112(18)
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
On Discovery
130(3)
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
The Way to Rainy Mountain
133(7)
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Of Smells
140(4)
GEORGE ORWELL
Shooting an Elephant
144(9)
ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH
The Spider and the Wasp
153(6)
SUSAN SONTAG
A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
159(4)
JONATHAN SWIFT
A Modest Proposal
163(9)
AMY TAN
Mother Tongue
172(7)
JAMES THURBER
University Days
179(7)
ALICE WALKER
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
186(9)
E.B. WHITE
Once More to the Lake
195(8)
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Death of the Moth
203(4)
Credits207(2)
Index209

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