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Twenty-Five Great Essays, Third Edition
Robert J. DiYanni
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Robert J. DiYanni’s Twenty-Five Great Essays features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, including authors ranging from William Hazlitt, Frederick Douglass, and E.B. White to Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Twenty-Five Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom, with selections chosen both as models of good writing and as appropriate springboards for student writing. A brief introduction explains the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.
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Twenty-Five 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.
Synopsis
"Twenty-Five 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.
Synopsis
Twenty-Five 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.
Table of Contents
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Preface.
INTRODUCTION
Francis Bacon, Of Studies
* Roland Barthes, Toys
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
* Charles Darwin, Natural Selection
Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd
Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels
* W.E.B. DuBois, Of Our Spiritual Striving
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
Gretel Ehrlich, About Men
Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection
William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating
* Michael Hogan, The Colonel
Langston Hughes, Salvation
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Michel de Montaigne, Of Smells
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Susan Sontag, A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
* Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods
James Thurber, University Days
E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth