The eloquent essay
Subtitle: an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction
By: edited, with an introduction by John Loughery.
Contributors: Loughery, John.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: American essays -- 20th century; Reportage literature, American; English essays -- 20th century
Description: "This Anthology shows the essay form at its most varied and dramatic. Written by some of our most engaging authors and arranged chronologically, here is the essay as letter, argument, anecdote, portrait, reminiscence, dialogue, and debate - on topics as diverse as becoming a doctor, freedom of speech, the ethics of hunting, the joys of the comma, and computer culture. Each essay is preceded by an overview of the individual author's life and works.

The Introduction traces the history of the essay and explains the reasons for its special vitality."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Collection of essays originally published 1931-1998.
"A Karen and Michael Braziller Book."
Table of contents: title: A hanging / George Orwell; title: The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden; title: Writing and analyzing a story / Eudora Welty; title: The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim; title: Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.; title: Georgia O'Keefe / Joan Didion; title: The cowboy and his cow / Edward Abbey; title: Huck at 100 / Leo Marx; title: In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer; title: When free speech was first condemned : the trial of Socrates reconsidered / I.F. Stone; title: Mother tongue / Amy Tan; title: Becoming a doctor / Lewis Thomas; title: How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life / Barbara Kingsolver; title: Is hunting ethical? / Ann S. Causey; title: The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan; title: Space is numeric / Ellen Ullman; title: Lying in the tall grasses, eating cane / Opal Palmer Adisa.