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Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)
ISBN: 9780205533534 | 0205533531
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Fifty Great Essaysprovides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses. This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both sub... MORE
| 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 | |
| An Overview of the Writing Process | |
| How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
| Of... MORE | |
| Road Warrior | |
| Toys | |
| Femininity | |
| Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood | |
| Calculated Risks | |
| Burl's | |
| Natural Selection | |
| Marrying Absurd | |
| Living Like Weasels | |
| Joyas Voladoras | |
| Of Our Spiritual Striving | |
| Learning to Read and Write | |
| About Men | |
| Living with Music | |
| The Value of Science | |
| Arriving at Perfection | |
| The Landscape of History | |
| The Company Man | |
| More than Just a ShrineEllis Island | |
| On the Pleasures of Hating | |
| The Colonel | |
| Salvation | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
| No Name Woman | |
| A Bachelor's Complaint | |
| Coming Home Again | |
| The Gettysburg Address | |
| The Morals of the Prince | |
| Shul/School | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| Of Smells | |
| Are You Somebody? | |
| Shooting an Elephant | |
| The Seam of the Snail | |
| The Medium Is the Metaphor | |
| Under the Influence | |
| A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? | |
| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
| Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space | |
| A Modest Proposal | |
| Mother Tongue | |
| Why I Went to the Woods | |
| University Days | |
| Aint I a Woman? | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| The Death of the Moth | |
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