| Description |
596 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series
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| Contents |
Foreword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates -- 1901 Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain -- 1903 Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 1906 Law of acceleration / Henry Adams -- 1909 Stickeen / John Muir -- 1910 Moral equivalent of war / Wiiliam James -- 1911 Handicapped / Randolph Bourne -- 1912 Coatesville / John Jay Chapman -- 1916 Devil baby at Hull-house / Jane Addams -- 1919 Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- 1923 Pamplona in July / Ernest Hemmigway -- 1925 Hills of Zion / H.L. Mencken -- 1928 How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- 1933 Old stone house / Edmund Wilson -- 1935 What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them / Gertrude Stein -- 1936 Crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sex ex machina / James Thurber -- 1937 Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright -- 1938 Knoxville: summer of 1915 / James Agee -- 1939 Figure a poem makes / Robert Frost -- 1941 Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- 1944 Insert flap "A" and throw away / S.J. Perelman -- 1949 Bop / Langston Hughes -- 1950 Future is now / Katherine Anne Porter -- 1953 Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- 1955 Marginal world / Rachel Carson -- 1955 Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- 1956 Brown wasps / Loren Eiseley -- 1957 Sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- 1961 Hundred thousand straightened nails / Donald Hall -- 1963 Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 1964 Putting daddy on / Tom Wolfe -- 1964 Notes on "Camp" / Susan Sontag -- 1966 Perfect past / Vladimir Nabokov -- 1967 Way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- 1968 Apotheosis of Martin Luther King / Elizabeth Hardwick -- 1969 Illumination rounds / Michael Herr -- 1970 I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou -- 1971 Lives of a cell / Lewis Thomas -- 1972 Search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee -- 1972 Doomed in their sinking / William H. Gass -- 1975 No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- 1975 Looking for Zora / Alice Walker -- 1977 Women and honor: some notes on lying / Adrienne Rich -- 1979 White album / Joan Didion -- 1980 Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez -- 1981 Solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- 1982 Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- 1982 Drugstore in winter / Cynthia Ozick -- 1987 Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all / William Manchester -- 1988 Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- z -- 1989 Creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- 1990 Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- 1993 Disposable rocket / John Updike -- 1995 They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- Biographical notes -- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction. |
| Note |
ISBN on back of book and on verso page are different. ISBN on back cover is #0618155872. ISBN on verso page is #0618043705. |
| Summary |
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Essays -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- editor, writer of ontroduction.
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Atwan, Robert, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780618043705 |
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0618043705 |
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9780618155873 |
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0618155872 |
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