The best American essays of the century
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Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Robert Atwan
- Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates
- Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain
- Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois
- A law of acceleration / Henry Adams
- Stickeen / John Muir
- The moral equivalent of war / Wiiliam James
- The handicapped / Randolph Bourne
- Coatesville / John Jay Chapman /The devil baby at Hull-house / Jane Addams
- Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot
- Pamplona in July / Ernest Hemingway
- The hills of Zion / H.L. Mencken
- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
- The old stone house / Edmund Wilson
- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them / Gertrude Stein
- The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sex Ex Machina / James Thurber
- The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / James Agee
- The figure a poem makes / Robert Frost
- Once more to the lake / E.B. White
- Insert flap "A" and throw away / S.J. Perelman
- Bop / Langston Hughes
- The future is now / Katherine Anne Porter
- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy
- The marginal world / Rachel Carson
- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
- The brown wasps / Loren Eiseley
- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty
- A hundred thousand straightened
- nails / Donald Hall
- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Putting daddy on / Tom Wolfe
- Notes on "Camp" / Susan Sontag
- Perfect past / Vladimir Nabokov
- The way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday
- The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / Elizabeth Hardwick
- Illumination rounds / Michael Herr
- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
- The lives of a cell / Lewis Thomas
- The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee
- The doomed in their sinking / William H. Gass
- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston
- Looking for Zora / Alice Walker
- Women and honor: some notes on lying / Adrienne Rich
- The white album / Joan Didion
- Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez
- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich
- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard
- A drugstore in winter / Cynthia Ozick
- Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all / William Manchester
- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland
- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould
- Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant / Gerald Early
- The disposable rocket / John Updike
- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates
- Graven images / Saul Bellow