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One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E

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One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E

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9780205535552
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0205535550
Edition: 3rd
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 01/01/2008
Publisher: LONGMAN
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One Hundred Great Essaysis published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings.

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
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Of Studies
Growing Up
Notes of a Native Son
Road Warrior
Toys
Attending a World
Into the Electric Millennium
I Want a Wife
Femininity
Influenza 1918
The Wound in the Face
Letter to His Son
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Calculated Risks
Burl's
How We Listen
Natural Selection
The Geography of the Imagination
Marrying Absurd
On Self-Respect
Living Like Weasels
No Man Is an Island
Learning to Read and Write
Joyas Voladoras
Of Our Spiritual Striving
Lights of the Long Night
About Men
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Living with Music
Nature
Never Do That to a Book
The Value of Science
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog
Arriving at Perfection
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Landscape of History
The Middle Way
The Company Man
More than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island
On the Pleasure of Hating
The Colonel
Naps
Salvation
Nowhere Man
The Declaration of Independence
Essay #189
On Seeing England for the First Time
Letter from Birmingham Jail
I Have a Dream
On Discovery
The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale
A Bachelor's Complaint
You Are What You Say
On Ben Franklin's Virtues
Coming Home Again
The Curse of Talent
The Gettysburg Address
The Stone Horse
The Morals of the Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Shul/School
Portrait of an Ideal World
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Of Smells
Are You Somebody
Politics and the English Language
Shooting an Elephant
The Din in the Head
The Allegory of the Cave
The Necessary Enemy
The Medium is the Metaphor
Between the Sexes, A Great Divide
Aria: Memories of a Bilingual Childhood
Letter to His Son
The Inheritance of Tools
What Secrets Tell
Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Verbal/Nonverbal
Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination
A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
On Being Black and Middle Class
A Modest Proposal
Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
Mother Tongue
The Corner of the Eye
Why I Went to the Woods
University Days
And Ain't I a Woman
Reading the River
from "Listening"
Once More to the Lake
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
The Duke of Deception
The Death of the Moth
Professions for Women
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