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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11674795.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 192 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0892552417 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Persea Books,".
- catalog subject "814/.508 21".
- catalog subject "American essays 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Creative nonfiction, American.".
- catalog subject "Creative nonfiction, English.".
- catalog subject "English essays 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PS688 .E48 2000".
- catalog subject "Reportage literature, American.".
- catalog subject "Reportage literature, English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The eloquent essay : an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction from the twentieth century / edited, with an introduction by John Loughery.".
- catalog type "text".