Bibliograph

The eloquent essay, an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction from the twentieth century, edited, with an introduction by John Loughery

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The eloquent essay, an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction from the twentieth century, edited, with an introduction by John Loughery

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The eloquent essay

Oclc number

40783827

Responsibility statement

edited, with an introduction by John Loughery

Sub title

an anthology of classic & creative nonfiction from the twentieth century

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

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