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9780618155873 |
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22 |
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824 |
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BE- |
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PS688 |
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.B47 2000 |
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814/.508 |
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21 |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Best American essays of the century |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Boston |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Houghton Mifflin Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2000 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxviii,596p. |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Foreword / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Robert Atwan -- |
| Title |
Introduction / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joyce Carol Oates -- |
| Title |
1901: Corn-pone Opinions / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Mark Twain -- |
| Title |
1903: Of the Coming of John / |
| Statement of responsibility |
W.E.B. Du Bois -- |
| Title |
1906: A Law of Acceleration / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Henry Adams -- |
| Title |
1909: Stickeen / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Muir -- |
| Title |
1910: The Moral Equivalent of War / |
| Statement of responsibility |
William James -- |
| Title |
1911: The Handicapped / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Randolph Bourne -- |
| Title |
1912: Coatesville / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Jay Chapman -- |
| Title |
1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Jane Addams -- |
| Title |
1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent / |
| Statement of responsibility |
T. S. Eliot -- |
| Title |
1923: Pamplona in July / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Ernest Hemingway -- |
| Title |
1925: The Hills of Zion / |
| Statement of responsibility |
H. L. Mencken -- |
| Title |
1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Zora Neale Hurston -- |
| Title |
1933: The Old Stone House / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Edmund Wilson -- |
| Title |
1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gertrude Stein -- |
| Title |
1936: The Crack-Up / |
| Statement of responsibility |
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- |
| Title |
1937: Sex Ex Machina / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Thurber -- |
| Title |
1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Wright -- |
| Title |
1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Agee -- |
| Title |
1939: The Figure a Poem Makes / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Robert Frost -- |
| Title |
1941: Once More to the Lake / |
| Statement of responsibility |
E. B. White -- |
| Title |
1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away / |
| Statement of responsibility |
S. J. Perelman -- |
| Title |
1949: Bop / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Langston Hughes -- |
| Title |
1950: The Future Is Now / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Katherine Anne Porter -- |
| Title |
1953: Artists in Uniform / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Mary McCarthy -- |
| Title |
1955: The Marginal World / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Rachel Carson -- |
| Title |
1955: Notes of a Native Son / |
| Statement of responsibility |
James Baldwin -- |
| Title |
1956: The Brown Wasps / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Loren Eiseley -- |
| Title |
1957: A Sweet Devouring / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Eudora Welty -- |
| Title |
1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Donald Hall -- |
| Title |
1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- |
| Title |
1964: Putting Daddy On / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Tom Wolfe -- |
| Title |
1964: Notes on "Camp" / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Susan Sontag -- |
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1966: Perfect Past / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Vladimir Nabokov -- |
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1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain / |
| Statement of responsibility |
N. Scott Momaday -- |
| Title |
1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Elizabeth Hardwick -- |
| Title |
1969: Illumination Rounds / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Michael Herr -- |
| Title |
1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Maya Angelou -- |
| Title |
1971: The Lives of a Cell / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Lewis Thomas -- |
| Title |
1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John McPhee -- |
| Title |
1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking / |
| Statement of responsibility |
William H. Gass -- |
| Title |
1975: No Name Woman / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Maxine Hong Kingston -- |
| Title |
1975: Looking for Zora / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Alice Walker -- |
| Title |
1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Adrienne Rich -- |
| Title |
1979: The White Album / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joan Didion -- |
| Title |
1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Richard Rodriguez -- |
| Title |
1981: The Solace of Open Spaces / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gretel Ehrlich -- |
| Title |
1982: Total Eclipse / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Annie Dillard -- |
| Title |
1982: A Drugstore in Winter / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Cynthia Ozick -- |
| Title |
1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All / |
| Statement of responsibility |
William Manchester -- |
| Title |
1988: Heaven and Nature / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Edward Hoagland -- |
| Title |
1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Stephen Jay Gould -- |
| Title |
1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Gerald Early -- |
| Title |
1993: The Disposable Rocket / |
| Statement of responsibility |
John Updike -- |
| Title |
1995: They All Just Went Away / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Joyce Carol Oates -- |
| Title |
1997: Graven Images / |
| Statement of responsibility |
Saul Bellow -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
Appendix. |
| Title |
Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction. |
| 520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"This collection is a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. In her introduction to this volume, Joyce Carol Oates describes her project as "a search for the expression of personal experience within the historical, the individual talent within the tradition." Along with Robert Atwan, Oates has chosen a list of works that are both intimate and important, essays that take on subjects of profound and universal significance while retaining the power and spirit of a personal address." "This collection honors some of the twentieth century's best-known and best-loved writers on a breathtaking variety of topics. In a journalistic mode, Ernest Hemingway covers the bullfights in Pamplona, H. L. Mencken reacts to the Scopes trial, and Michael Herr dodges bullets in a helicopter over Vietnam. Nowhere is the intersection of our personal and political histories more meaningful than when the subject is America's enduring legacy of racial strife, as shown by Richard Wright's "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son," Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," and others. The wonders and horrors of science, nature, and the cosmos are explored with eloquence, bravery, and beauty when Lewis Thomas writes about "The Lives of a Cell," Rachel Carson mulls "The Marginal World," and Stephen Jay Gould preaches evolution and baseball in "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown."" "Taken together, these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Essays. |
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Oates, Joyce Carol |
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1938- |
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22761 |
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Atwan, Robert |
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22762 |
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TOC |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Print |
| Koha issues (borrowed), all copies |
5 |
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20080207 |
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MPS |
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20110805 |
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ks26 |
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