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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. This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing,Fifty Great Essaysprovides flexible options. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for writing. An introductory section informs the reader about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

Robert DiYanni's Fifty Great Essays is a compelling collection of teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, including works by authors ranging from William Hazlitt to Langston Hughes, and from George Orwell to David Sedaris. Combining frequently taught classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every classroom, with selections that offer both models of good professional writing and appropriate springboards for student writing.

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Reading and Writing	p. 1
How to Tame a Wild Tongue	p. 30
Facts on the Ground	p. 42
Of Studies	p. 52
Road Warrior	p. 55
Toys	p. 59
Letter to His Son	p. 62
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood	p. 64
Calculated Risks	p. 70
Natural Selection	p. 80
On Self-Respect	p. 92
Living Like Weasels	p. 97
teaming to Read and Write	p. 102
Joyas Voladoras	p. 108
About Men	p. 112
Living with Music	p. 116
The Value of Science	p. 126
Arriving at Perfection	p. 133
The Company Man	p. 137
More Than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island	p. 140
On the Pleasure of Hating	p. 146
Dwellings	p. 157
The Colonel	p. 263
Salvation	p. 169
How It Feels to Be Colored Me	p. 172
Nowhere Man	p. 177
On Seeing England for the First Time	p. 181
Letter from Birmingham Jail	p. 192
Why We Crave Horror Movies	p. 209
On Discovery	p. 222
The Gettysburg Address	p. 215
The Morals of the Prince	p. 217
Cat People us. Dog People	p. 226
The Way to Rainy Mountain	p. 233
Of Smells	p. 240
Are You Somebody?	p. 243
Shooting an Elephant	p. 246
Under the Influence	p. 254
Cyclops	p. 268
The World Is All That Is the Case	p. 274
A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?	p. 284
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	p. 288
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space	p. 292
A Modest Proposal	p. 296
Mother Tongue	p. 305
Why I Went to the Woods	p. 312
And Ain't I a Woman?	p. 319
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self	p. 321
Once More to the Lake	p. 329
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	p. 336
The Death of the Moth	p. 340
Credits	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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