The best American essays of the century
Presents a collection of essays originally published in various periodicals throughout the twentieth century, written by a number of noted writers including Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, and many others
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Boston
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
[2000]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Best American series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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 / William 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 ed machine / 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 maphee
- the doomed in their sinking / William h. gass
- no name women / 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