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245 0 4 _aBest American essays of the century
260 _aBoston
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300 _axxviii,596p.
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505 0 0 _tForeword /
_rRobert Atwan --
_tIntroduction /
_rJoyce Carol Oates --
_t1901: Corn-pone Opinions /
_rMark Twain --
_t1903: Of the Coming of John /
_rW.E.B. Du Bois --
_t1906: A Law of Acceleration /
_rHenry Adams --
_t1909: Stickeen /
_rJohn Muir --
_t1910: The Moral Equivalent of War /
_rWilliam James --
_t1911: The Handicapped /
_rRandolph Bourne --
_t1912: Coatesville /
_rJohn Jay Chapman --
_t1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House /
_rJane Addams --
_t1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent /
_rT. S. Eliot --
_t1923: Pamplona in July /
_rErnest Hemingway --
_t1925: The Hills of Zion /
_rH. L. Mencken --
_t1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me /
_rZora Neale Hurston --
_t1933: The Old Stone House /
_rEdmund Wilson --
_t1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them /
_rGertrude Stein --
_t1936: The Crack-Up /
_rF. Scott Fitzgerald --
_t1937: Sex Ex Machina /
_rJames Thurber --
_t1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch /
_rRichard Wright --
_t1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 /
_rJames Agee --
_t1939: The Figure a Poem Makes /
_rRobert Frost --
_t1941: Once More to the Lake /
_rE. B. White --
_t1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away /
_rS. J. Perelman --
_t1949: Bop /
_rLangston Hughes --
_t1950: The Future Is Now /
_rKatherine Anne Porter --
_t1953: Artists in Uniform /
_rMary McCarthy --
_t1955: The Marginal World /
_rRachel Carson --
_t1955: Notes of a Native Son /
_rJames Baldwin --
_t1956: The Brown Wasps /
_rLoren Eiseley --
_t1957: A Sweet Devouring /
_rEudora Welty --
_t1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails /
_rDonald Hall --
_t1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail /
_rMartin Luther King, Jr. --
_t1964: Putting Daddy On /
_rTom Wolfe --
_t1964: Notes on "Camp" /
_rSusan Sontag --
_t1966: Perfect Past /
_rVladimir Nabokov --
_t1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain /
_rN. Scott Momaday --
_t1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King /
_rElizabeth Hardwick --
_t1969: Illumination Rounds /
_rMichael Herr --
_t1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings /
_rMaya Angelou --
_t1971: The Lives of a Cell /
_rLewis Thomas --
_t1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens /
_rJohn McPhee --
_t1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking /
_rWilliam H. Gass --
_t1975: No Name Woman /
_rMaxine Hong Kingston --
_t1975: Looking for Zora /
_rAlice Walker --
_t1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying /
_rAdrienne Rich --
_t1979: The White Album /
_rJoan Didion --
_t1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood /
_rRichard Rodriguez --
_t1981: The Solace of Open Spaces /
_rGretel Ehrlich --
_t1982: Total Eclipse /
_rAnnie Dillard --
_t1982: A Drugstore in Winter /
_rCynthia Ozick --
_t1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All /
_rWilliam Manchester --
_t1988: Heaven and Nature /
_rEdward Hoagland --
_t1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown /
_rStephen Jay Gould --
_t1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant /
_rGerald Early --
_t1993: The Disposable Rocket /
_rJohn Updike --
_t1995: They All Just Went Away /
_rJoyce Carol Oates --
_t1997: Graven Images /
_rSaul Bellow --
_gAppendix.
_tNotable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction.
520 1 _a"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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