Introduction to the essay
By: [compiled by] Edmund Fuller [and] O.B. Davis.
Contributors: Davis, O. B., joint comp.
Publisher: Hayden Book Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: College readers.; English language -- Rhetoric.
Table of contents: title: A hanging by G. Orwell.; title: The presence of mine enemies, by O.B. Davis.; title: Danny Deever, by R. Kipling.; title: Boxing with the naked eye, by A.J. Liebling.; title: The fight, by W. Hazlitt.; title: Charles II, by T.B. Macaulay.; title: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others, by W.E.B. DuBois.; title: The politician, by H.L. Mencken.; title: The idea of patriotism, by A.L. Rowse.; title: On patriotism; title: a fragment, by W. Hazlitt.; title: Wrong ism, by J.B. Priestly.; title: The war prayer, by M. Twain.; title: Fable, by W. Golding.; title: The lord of hobbits: J.R.R. Tolkien, by E. Fuller.; title: Faulkner, extra-special, double-distilled, by C. Fadiman.; title: New eyes for old, by R. McKenna.; title: How impractical are the humanities? By L.B. Salomon.; title: On the classics, by G.K. Chesterton.; title: A memory of father, by J.S. Redding.; title: Brownsville, by A. Kazin.; title: Once more to the lake, by E.B. White.; title: Confessions of a wood-chopping man, by H. MacLennan.; title: Wolf, by L. Eiseley.; title: The individual and the species, by J.W. Krutch.