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An edition of The best American essays of the century
(2000)
The best American essays of the century
by Joyce Carol Oates
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An edition of The best American essays of the century
(2000)
The best American essays of the century
by Joyce Carol Oates
- 3 Ratings
- 44 Want to read
- 1 Currently reading
- 2 Have read
Previews available in: English
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
Subjects
American essays, Essays, American essays, 20th centuryTimes
20th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)
October 10, 2001, Houghton Mifflin
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The best American essays of the century
2000, Houghton Mifflin Co.
in English
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The Best American Essays of the Century
September 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Best American Essays of the Century
September 22, 2000, Houghton Mifflin
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Table of Contents
| Foreword -- by Robert Atwan | ||
| Introduction -- by Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| Corn-pone opinions -- Mark Twain | ||
| Of the coming of John -- W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| Law of acceleration -- Henry Adams | ||
| Stickeen -- John Muir | ||
| Moral equivalent of war -- William James | ||
| Handicapped -- Randolph Bourne | ||
| Coatesville -- John Jay Chapman | ||
| Devil baby at Hull-house -- Jane Addams | ||
| Tradition and the individual talent -- T.S. Eliot | ||
| Pamplona in July -- Ernest Hemingway | ||
| Hills of Zion -- H.L. Mencken | ||
| How it feels to be colored me -- Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| Old stone house -- Edmund Wilson | ||
| What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them -- Gertrude Stein | ||
| Crack-up -- F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| Sex Ex Machina -- James Thurber | ||
| Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch -- Richard Wright | ||
| Knoxville: Summer of 1915 -- James Agee | ||
| Figure a poem makes -- Robert Frost | ||
| Once more to the lake -- E.B. White | ||
| Insert flap "A" and throw away -- S.J. Perelman | ||
| Bop -- Langston Hughes | ||
| Future is now -- Katherine Anne Porter | ||
| Artists in uniform -- Mary McCarthy | ||
| Marginal world -- Rachel Carson | ||
| Notes of a native son -- James Baldwin | ||
| Brown wasps -- Loren Eiseley | ||
| Sweet devouring -- Eudora Welty | ||
| Hundred thousand straightened nails -- Donald Hall | ||
| Letter from Birmingham jail -- Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| Putting daddy on -- Tom Wolfe | ||
| Notes on "Camp" -- Susan Sontag | ||
| Perfect past -- Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| Way to Rainy Mountain -- N. Scott Momaday | ||
| Apotheosis of Martin Luther King -- Elizabeth Hardwick | ||
| Illumination rounds -- Michael Herr | ||
| I know why the caged bird sings -- Maya Angelou | ||
| Lives of a cell -- Lewis Thomas | ||
| Search for Marvin Gardens -- John McPhee | ||
| Doomed in their sinking -- William H. Gass | ||
| No name woman -- Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| Looking for Zora -- Alice Walker | ||
| Women and honor: some notes on lying -- Adrienne Rich | ||
| White album -- Joan Didion | ||
| Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood -- Richard Rodriguez | ||
| Solace of open spaces -- Gretel Ehrlich | ||
| Total eclipse -- Annie Dillard | ||
| Drugstore in winter -- Cynthia Ozick | ||
| Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all -- William Manchester | ||
| Heaven and nature -- Edward Hoagland | ||
| Creation myths of Cooperstown -- Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant -- Gerald Early | ||
| Disposable rocket -- John Updike | ||
| hey all just went away -- Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| Graven images -- Saul Bellow | ||
| Biographical notes -- | ||
| Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-590).
Also issued online.
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