One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series)
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An affordable reader with 100 classic and contemporary readings. Alphabetically-organized by author for ease and flexibility.
PrefaceIntroduction: Reading and Writing* indicates readings that are new to this edition1. Gloria Anzaldua How to Tame a Wild Tongue2. *Kwame Anthony Appiah Facts on the Ground3. Francis Bacon Of Studies4. Russell Baker Growing Up5. James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son6. Dave Barry Road Warrior7. Roland Barthes Toys8. Sven Birkerts Into the Electronic Millennium9. Judy Brady I Want a Wife10. Jane Brox Influenza11. Angela Carter The Wound in the Face12. Lord Chesterfield Letter to His Son13. *Christopher Claussen Against Work14. Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood15. K.C. Cole Calculated Risks16. Charles Darwin Natural Selection17. Joan Didion Marrying Absurd18. Joan Didion On Self-Respect19. Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels20. *Annie Dillard Heaven and earth in Jest21. John Donne No Man is an Island22. Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write23. Brian Doyle Joyas Voladoras24. W.E.B. DuBois Of Our Spiritual Striving25. Andre Dubus Lights of the Long Night26. Gretel Ehrlich About Men27. Queen Elizabeth I Speech to the Troops at Tilbury28. Ralph Ellison Living with Music29. *Anne Fadiman Birth30. Richard Feynman The Value of Science31. Benjamin Franklin Arriving at Perfection32. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams33. *Henry Louis Gates In the Kitchen34. *Matthew Ghoulish Criticism35. Ellen Goodman The Company Man36. Mary Gordon More Than Just a Shrine–Ellis Island37. William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating38. *Linda Hogan Dwellings39. Michael Hogan The Colonel40. Barbara Holland Naps41. Langston Hughes Salvation42. *Zora Neale Hurston How It Feels to Be Colored Me43. Pico Iyer Nowhere Man44. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence45. Yoshida Kenko 189 36546. *Jamaica Kincaid On Seeing England for the First Time47. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail48. *Stephen King Why We Crave Horror Movies49. Maxine Hong Kingston On Discovery50. August Kleinzhaler The Dog, the Family: A Household Tale51. Robin Tolmach Lakoff You Are What You Say52. D.H. Lawrence On Benjamin Franklin’s Vitrues53. Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address54. Niccolo Machiavelli The Morals of the Prince55. *Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple56. Karl Marx & Frederich Engels The Communist Manifesto57. H.L. Mencken Portrait of an Ideal World58. *Laura Miller Cat People vs. Dog People59. Horace Miner Body Language of the Nacirema60. N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain61. Michel de Montaigne Of Smalls62. *Bharati Mukherjee Imagining Homelands63. Nuala O’Faolain Are You Somebody?64. George Orwell Politics and the English Language65. George Orwell Shooting an Elephant66. *Cynthia Ozick The Seam of the Snail67. Plato The Allegory of the Cave68. Katherine Anne Porter The Necessary Enemy69. Anna Quindlen Between the Sexes a Great Divide70.• Clotaire Rapaille Working for a Living: The Codes for Work and Money71. Richard Rodriguez Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood72. *Judy Ruiz Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy73. Nicola Sacco Letter from Charleston State Prison74. Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence75. Luc Sante What Secrets Tell76. Chief Seattle Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott77. David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day78. *David Sedaris Cyclops79. Leonard Shlain Nonverbal/Verbal80.• Lee Siegel The World That Is the Case81. Leslie Marmon Silko Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination82. Susan Sontag A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?83. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions84. Brent Staples Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space85. Shelby Steele On Being Black and Middle Class86. Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal87. Margaret Talbot Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart88. Amy Tan Mother Tongue89. Lewis Thomas The Corner of the Eye90. Henry David Thoreau Why I Went to the Woods91. Sojourner Truth Ain’t I a Woman?92. Mark Twain Reading the River93. *Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self94. *David Foster Wallace Consider the Lobster95. Eudora Welty From Listening96. E.B. White Once More to the Lake97. Geoffrey Wolfe The Duke of Deception98. Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman99. Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth100. Virginia Woolf Professions for Women
