The best American essays of the century, Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
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The best American essays of the century, Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [569]-596)
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no index present
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non fiction
Main title
The best American essays of the century
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bibliography
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44945696
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Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Summary
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century
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 -- A law of acceleration / Henry Adams -- Stickeen / John Muir -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- The handicapped / Randolph Bourne -- Coatesville / John Jay Chapman -- The devil baby at Hull-house / Jane Addams -- Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- Pamplona in July / Ernest Hemingway -- The hills of Zion / H.L. Mencken -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- The old stone house / Edmund Wilson -- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them / Gertrude Stein -- The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sex Ex Machina / James Thurber -- The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright -- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / James Agee -- The 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 -- The future is now / Katherine Anne Porter -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- The marginal world / Rachel Carson -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- The brown wasps / Loren Eiseley -- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- A 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 -- The way to Rainy Rountain / N. Scott Momaday -- The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Illumination rounds / Michael Herr -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- The lives of a cell / Lewis Thomas -- The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee -- The 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 -- The white album / Joan Didion -- Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- A drugstore in winter / Cynthia Ozick -- Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all / William Manchester -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- The disposable rocket / John Updike -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- Biographical notes -- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction
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American essays of the century
Contributor
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- James, William, 1842-1910
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989
- Bourne, Randolph Stillman, 1886-1918
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Mencken, H. L., Henry Louis, 1880-1956
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- McPhee, John, John A.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Wolfe, Tom,
- Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993
- Manchester, William, 1922-2004
- White, E. B., Elwyn Brooks, 1899-1985
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Francis Scott, 1896-1940
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Didion, Joan
- Eliot, T. S., Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965
- Ehrlich, Gretel
- Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Atwan, Robert
- Early, Gerald Lyn
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
- Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
- Gass, William H., 1924-2017
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Angelou, Maya
- Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-
- Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
- Bellow, Saul
- Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Updike, John
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
- Hoagland, Edward
- Muir, John, 1838-1914
- Thurber, James, 1894-1961
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
- Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977
- Du Bois, W. E. B., William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963
- Perelman, S. J., Sidney Joseph, 1904-1979
- Dillard, Annie
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- Contributor56
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- James, William, 1842-1910
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989
- Bourne, Randolph Stillman, 1886-1918
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Mencken, H. L., Henry Louis, 1880-1956
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- McPhee, John, John A.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Wolfe, Tom,
- Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993
- Manchester, William, 1922-2004
- White, E. B., Elwyn Brooks, 1899-1985
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Francis Scott, 1896-1940
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Didion, Joan
- Eliot, T. S., Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965
- Ehrlich, Gretel
- Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Atwan, Robert
- Early, Gerald Lyn
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
- Herr, Michael, 1940-2016
- Gass, William H., 1924-2017
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Angelou, Maya
- Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-
- Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
- Bellow, Saul
- Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Updike, John
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
- Hoagland, Edward
- Muir, John, 1838-1914
- Thurber, James, 1894-1961
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
- Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977
- Du Bois, W. E. B., William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963
- Perelman, S. J., Sidney Joseph, 1904-1979
- Dillard, Annie
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