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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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
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
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
mehr
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
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
