One hundred great essays / edited by Robert DiYanni. [print]

Includes Index.

How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua -- Of studies / Francis Bacon -- Growing up / Russell Baker -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Road warrior / Dave Barry -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- Attending a world / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Into the electronic millennium / Sven Birkerts -- I want a life / Judy Brady -- Feminity / Susan Brownmiller -- Influenza / Jane Brox -- The wound in the face / Angela Carter -- Letter to his son / Lord Chesterfield -- Casa : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Calculated risks / K.C. Cole -- Burl's / Bernard Cooper -- How we listen / Aaron Copland -- Natural selection / Charles Darwin -- The geography of imagination / Guy Davenport -- Marrying absurd / Joan Didion -- On self-respect / Joan Didion -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- No man is an island / John Donne -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Of our spiritual striving / W.E.B. DuBois -- Lights of the long night / Andre Dubus -- About men / Gretel Ehrlich -- Speech to the troops at Tilbury / Queen Elizabeth I -- Living with music / Ralph Ellison -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Never do that to a book / Anne Fadiman -- The value of science / Richard Feynman -- Sister Bernadette's barking dog / Kitty Burns Florey -- Arriving at perfection / Benjamin Franklin -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- The landscape of history / John Lewis Gaddis -- The middle way : learning to balance family and work / Ellen Gilchrist -- The company man / Ellen Goodman -- More than just a shrine : Ellis Island / Mary Gordon -- On the pleasure of hating / William Hazlitt -- The colonel / Michael Hogan -- Naps / Barbara Holland -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- Nowhere man / Pico Iyer -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- 189 365 / Yoshida Kenko -- The ugly tourist / Jamaica Kincaid -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The dog, the family : a household tale / August Kleinzahler -- You are what you say / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- A bachelor's complaint / Charles Lamb -- On Ben Franklin's virtues / D.H. Lawrence -- Coming home again / Chang-Rae Lee -- The curse of talent / Michael Lewis -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The stone horse / Barry Lopez -- The Morals of the Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Shul / James McBride -- Portrait of an ideal world / H.L. Mencken -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- The way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Of smells / Michel de Montaigne -- Are you somebody? / Nuala O'Faolain -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- The din in the head / Cynthia Ozick -- The allegory of the cave / Plato -- The necessary enemy / Katherine Anne Porter -- The medium is the metaphor / Neil Postman -- Between the sexes, a great divide / Anna Quindlen -- Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez -- Letter from Charlestown State Prison / Nicola Sacco -- Under the influence / Scott Russell Sanders -- What secrets tell / Luc Sante -- Speech on the signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott / Chief Seattle -- Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Nonverbal/verbal / Leonard Shlain -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- A woman's beauty : put-down or power source? / Susan Sontag -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Just walk on by : black men and public space / Brent Staples -- On being black and middle class / Shelby Steele -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Les tres riches heures de Martha Stewart / Margaret Talbot -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- The corner of they eye / Lewis Thomas -- Why I went to the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- University days / James Thurber -- And ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Reading the river / Mark Twain -- From listening / Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- The Duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolfe -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Professions for women / Virginia Woolf.

Robert DiYanni's One Hundred Great Essays features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses, including authors ranging from William Hazlitt, Frederick Douglass, and E.B. White to Richard Feynman, Annie Dillard, and Dave Barry. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, One Hundred Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom, with selections chosen both as models of good writing and as appropriate springboards for student writing. A brief introduction explains the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays. Back Cover

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