One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)

* indicates new selections. Preface. Introduction: Reading and Writing Essays. History and Context. Pleasures of the Essay. Types of Essays. Reading Essays. Reading Annie Dillard's "Living Like Weasels." Writing Essays. Arriving at an Interpretation. 1. Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue 2. Francis Bacon, Of Studies 3. Russell Baker, Growing Up 4. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son 5. Dave Barry, Road Warrior 6. **Roland Barthes, Toys 7. Mary Catherine Bateson, Attending a World 8. Sven Birkerts, Into the Electric Millennium 9. Judy Brady, I Want a Wife 10. Susan Brownmiller, Femininity 11. Jane Brox, Influenza 1918 12. Angela Carter, The Wound in the Face 13. **Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son 14. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood 15. K. C. Cole, Calculated Risks 16. Bernard Cooper, Burl's 17. Aaron Copland, How We Listen 18. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection 19. Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination 20. Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd 21. Joan Didion, On Self-Respect 22. Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels 23. John Donne, No Man Is an Island 24. Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write 25. ** Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras 26. W. E. B. Du Bois, Of Our Spiritual Striving 27. ** Andre Dubus, Lights of the Long Night 28. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men 29. Queen Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury 30. Ralph Ellison, Living with Music 31. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 32. Anne Fadiman, Never Do That to a Book 33. ** Richard Feynman, The Value of Science 34. ** Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog 35.Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection 36. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams 37. ** John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History 38. ** Ellen Gilchrist, The Middle Way 39. Ellen Goodman, The Company Man 40. Mary Gordon, More than Just a Shrine--Ellis Island 41. William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating 42. ** Michael Hogan, The Colonel 43. Barbara Holland, Naps 44. Langston Hughes, Salvation 45. Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man 46. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence 47. ** Yoshida Kenko, Essay #189 48. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time 49. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail 50. Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream 51. Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery 52. ** August Kleinzahler, The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale 53. Charles Lamb, A Bachelor's Complaint 54. Robin Tolmach Lakoff, You Are What You Say 55. D. H. Lawrence, On Ben Franklin's Virtues 56. Chang-rae Lee, Coming Home Again 57. ** Michael Lewis, The Curse of Talent 58. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address 59. Barry Lopez, The Stone Horse 60. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince 61. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 62. ** James McBride, Shul/School 63. H. L. Mencken, Portrait of an Ideal World 64. Howard Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 65. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain 66. Michel de Montaigne, Of Smells 67. ** Nuala O'Faolain, Are You Somebody 68. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language 69. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant 70. **Cynthia Ozick, The Din in the Head 71. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave 72. Katherine Anne Porter, The Necessary Enemy 73. ** Neil Postman, The Medium is the Metaphor 74. Anna Quindlen, Between the Sexes, A Great Divide 75. Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memories of a Bilingual Childhood 76. ** Niccolo Sacco, Letter to His Son 77. ** Scott Russell Sanders, The Inheritance of Tools 78. Luc Sante, What Secrets Tell 79. Chief Seattle, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott 80. ** David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day 81. Leonard Shlain, Verbal/Nonverbal 82. Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination 83. Susan Sontag, A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? 84. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 85. Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space 86. Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class 87. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal 88. Margaret Talbot, Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart 89. Amy Tan, Mother Tongue 90. Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye 91. Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods 92. James Thurber, University Days 93. Sojourner Truth, And Ain't I a Woman 94. Mark Twain, Reading the River 95. Eudora Welty, from "Listening" 96. E. B. White, Once More to the Lake 97. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women 98. ** Geoffrey Woolf, The Duke of Deception 99. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth 100. Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women