The eloquent essay : an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction

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The eloquent essay : an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction

edited, with an introduction by John Loughery

Persea Books, c2000

  • : pbk

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Note

Collection of essays originally published 1931-1998

"A Karen and Michael Braziller Book."

Contents of Works

  • A hanging / George Orwell
  • The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden
  • Writing and analyzing a story / Eudora Welty
  • The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim
  • Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Georgia O'Keefe / Joan Didion
  • The cowboy and his cow / Edward Abbey
  • Huck at 100 / Leo Marx
  • In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer
  • When free speech was first condemned : the trial of Socrates reconsidered / I.F. Stone
  • Mother tongue / Amy Tan
  • Becoming a doctor / Lewis Thomas
  • How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life / Barbara Kingsolver
  • Is hunting ethical? / Ann S. Causey
  • The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan
  • Space is numeric / Ellen Ullman
  • Lying in the tall grasses, eating cane / Opal Palmer Adisa

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