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The best American essays of the century

Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.

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Other Authors: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Editor, Author of introduction, etc.), Atwan, Robert (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, [MA] : Houghton Mifflin Company, c2000.
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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

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