KEY FEATURE: "Fifty Great Essays" offers 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 Essays" offers readers an excellent introduction into the world of great essay-writing. Selections range from classic essays such as E.B. White's, " Beauty" and Frederick Douglass', " Learning to Read and Write" to contemporary essays such as Mary Wollstonecraft's, " A Vindication of the Rights of Women" and Nancy Mairs, " On Being a Cripple." General readers.