The best American essays of the century
By: Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780618043705; 9780618155873
Subjects: American essays; Essays
Description: Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-590).

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Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- by Robert Atwan; title: Introduction  -- by Joyce Carol Oates; title: Corn-pone opinions  -- Mark Twain; title: Of the coming of John  -- W.E.B. Du Bois; title: Law of acceleration  -- Henry Adams; title: Stickeen  -- John Muir; title: Moral equivalent of war  -- William James; title: Handicapped  -- Randolph Bourne; title: Coatesville  -- John Jay Chapman; title: Devil baby at Hull-house  -- Jane Addams; title: Tradition and the individual talent  -- T.S. Eliot; title: Pamplona in July  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: Hills of Zion  -- H.L. Mencken; title: How it feels to be colored me  -- Zora Neale Hurston; title: Old stone house  -- Edmund Wilson; title: What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them  -- Gertrude Stein; title: Crack-up  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Sex Ex Machina  -- James Thurber; title: Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch  -- Richard Wright; title: Knoxville: Summer of 1915  -- James Agee; title: Figure a poem makes  -- Robert Frost; title: Once more to the lake  -- E.B. White; title: Insert flap "A" and throw away  -- S.J. Perelman; title: Bop  -- Langston Hughes; title: Future is now  -- Katherine Anne Porter; title: Artists in uniform  -- Mary McCarthy; title: Marginal world  -- Rachel Carson; title: Notes of a native son  -- James Baldwin; title: Brown wasps  -- Loren Eiseley; title: Sweet devouring  -- Eudora Welty; title: Hundred thousand straightened nails  -- Donald Hall; title: Letter from Birmingham jail  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: Putting daddy on  -- Tom Wolfe; title: Notes on "Camp"  -- Susan Sontag; title: Perfect past  -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: Way to Rainy Mountain  -- N. Scott Momaday; title: Apotheosis of Martin Luther King  -- Elizabeth Hardwick; title: Illumination rounds  -- Michael Herr; title: I know why the caged bird sings  -- Maya Angelou; title: Lives of a cell  -- Lewis Thomas; title: Search for Marvin Gardens  -- John McPhee; title: Doomed in their sinking  -- William H. Gass; title: No name woman  -- Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Looking for Zora  -- Alice Walker; title: Women and honor: some notes on lying  -- Adrienne Rich; title: White album  -- Joan Didion; title: Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood  -- Richard Rodriguez; title: Solace of open spaces  -- Gretel Ehrlich; title: Total eclipse  -- Annie Dillard; title: Drugstore in winter  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all  -- William Manchester; title: Heaven and nature  -- Edward Hoagland; title: Creation myths of Cooperstown  -- Stephen Jay Gould; title: Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant  -- Gerald Early; title: Disposable rocket  -- John Updike; title: hey all just went away  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Graven images  -- Saul Bellow; title: Biographical notes --; title: Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction.