MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 99013309
003 DLC
005 20100225152221.0
008 990129r20001931nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 99013309
020 $a0892552417 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS688$b.E48 2000
082 00 $a814/.508$221
245 04 $aThe eloquent essay :$ban anthology of classic & creative nonfiction /$cedited, with an introduction by John Loughery.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPersea Books,$cc2000.
300 $axv, 192 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aCollection of essays originally published 1931-1998.
500 $a"A Karen and Michael Braziller Book."
505 0 $aA 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.
650 0 $aAmerican essays$y20th century.
650 0 $aReportage literature, American.
650 0 $aEnglish essays$y20th century.
650 0 $aCreative nonfiction.
700 1 $aLoughery, John.