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Fifty Great Essays provides 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 Essays provides 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.
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An affordable reader with 50 classic and contemporary readings. Alphabetically organized by author, for ease and flexiblity.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Reading and Writing
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Preface
Introduction: Reading and Writing
- Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
- *Kwame Anthony Appiah, Facts on the Ground
- Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- Dave Barry, Road Warrior
- Roland Barthes, Toys
- Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son
- Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
- K.C. Cole, Calculated Risks
- Charles Darwin, Natural Selection
- *Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
- Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels
- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
- Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras
- Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
- Ralph Ellison, Living with Music
- Richard Feynman, The Value of Science
- Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection
- Ellen Goodman, The Company Man
- Mary Gordon, More Than Just a Shrine–Ellis Island
- William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating
- *Linda Hogan, Dwellings
- Michael Hogan, The Colonel
- Langston Hughes, Salvation
- *Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
- Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man
- *Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
- *Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
- Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery
- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince
- *Laura Miller , Cat People vs. Dog People
- N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
- Michel de Montaigne, Of Smalls
- Nuala O’Faolain, Are You Somebody?
- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
- Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence
- *David Sedaris, Cyclops
- * Lee Siegel, The World That Is the Case
- Susan Sontag, A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
- Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
- Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods
- Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman?
- *Alice Walker , Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
- E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth