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An edition of The eloquent essay (2000)

The eloquent essay

an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction

1st ed.

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"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.

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Persea Books
Language
English
Pages
192

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Subjects
American essays, English essays, American Reportage literature, Creative nonfiction, Essays, Essay

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The eloquent essay: an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction
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Table of Contents

A 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.

Edition Notes

Collection of essays originally published 1931-1998.
"A Karen and Michael Braziller Book."

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
814/.508
Library of Congress
PS688 .E48 2000, PS688.E48 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 192 p. ;
Number of pages
192

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OL32089M
Internet Archive
eloquentessayant00john
ISBN 10
0892552417
LCCN
99013309
OCLC/WorldCat
40783827
Library Thing
671560
Goodreads
299395

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