One Hundred Great Essays
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One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings.
* 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 Tongue2. Francis Bacon, Of Studies3. Russell Baker, Growing Up4. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son5. Dave Barry, Road Warrior6. **Roland Barthes, Toys7. Mary Catherine Bateson, Attending a World8. Sven Birkerts, Into the Electric Millennium9. Judy Brady, I Want a Wife10. Susan Brownmiller, Femininity11. Jane Brox, Influenza 191812. Angela Carter, The Wound in the Face13. **Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son14. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood15. K. C. Cole, Calculated Risks16. Bernard Cooper, Burl’s17. Aaron Copland, How We Listen18. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection19. Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination20. Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd21. Joan Didion, On Self-Respect22. Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels23. John Donne, No Man Is an Island24. Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write25. ** Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras26. W. E. B. Du Bois, Of Our Spiritual Striving27. ** Andre Dubus, Lights of the Long Night28. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men29. Queen Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury30. Ralph Ellison, Living with Music31. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature32. Anne Fadiman, Never Do That to a Book33. ** Richard Feynman, The Value of Science34. ** Kitty Burns Florey, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog35.Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection36. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams37. ** John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History38. ** Ellen Gilchrist, The Middle Way39. Ellen Goodman, The Company Man40. Mary Gordon, More than Just a Shrine–Ellis Island41. William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating42. ** Michael Hogan, The Colonel43. Barbara Holland, Naps44. Langston Hughes, Salvation45. Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man46. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence47. ** Yoshida Kenko, Essay #18948. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time49. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail50. Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream51. Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery52. ** August Kleinzahler, The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale53. Charles Lamb, A Bachelor’s Complaint54. Robin Tolmach Lakoff, You Are What You Say55. D. H. Lawrence, On Ben Franklin’s Virtues56. Chang-rae Lee, Coming Home Again57. ** Michael Lewis, The Curse of Talent58. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address59. Barry Lopez, The Stone Horse60. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince61. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto62. ** James McBride, Shul/School63. H. L. Mencken, Portrait of an Ideal World64. Howard Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema65. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain66. Michel de Montaigne, Of Smells67. ** Nuala O’Faolain, Are You Somebody68. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language69. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant70. **Cynthia Ozick, The Din in the Head71. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave72. Katherine Anne Porter, The Necessary Enemy73. ** Neil Postman, The Medium is the Metaphor74. Anna Quindlen, Between the Sexes, A Great Divide75. Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memories of a Bilingual Childhood76. ** Niccolo Sacco, Letter to His Son77. ** Scott Russell Sanders, The Inheritance of Tools78. Luc Sante, What Secrets Tell79. Chief Seattle, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott80. ** David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day81. Leonard Shlain, Verbal/Nonverbal82. Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination83. Susan Sontag, A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?84. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions85. Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space86. Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class87. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal88. Margaret Talbot, Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart89. Amy Tan, Mother Tongue90. Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye91. Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods92. James Thurber, University Days93. Sojourner Truth, And Ain’t I a Woman94. Mark Twain, Reading the River95. Eudora Welty, from “Listening”96. E. B. White, Once More to the Lake97. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women98. ** Geoffrey Woolf, The Duke of Deception99. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth100. Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
