Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2000.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-590).
- Foreword / by Robert Atwan — Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates — Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain — Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois — Law of acceleration / Henry Adams — Stickeen / John Muir — Moral equivalent of war / William James — Handicapped / Randolph Bourne — Coatesville / John Jay Chapman — Devil baby at Hull-house / Jane Addams — Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot — Pamplona in July / Ernest Hemingway — Hills of Zion / H.L. Mencken — How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston — Old stone house / Edmund Wilson — What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them / Gertrude Stein — Crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald — Sex Ex Machina / James Thurber — Ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright — Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / James Agee — Figure a poem makes / Robert Frost — Once more to the lake / E.B. White — Insert flap A and throw away / S.J. Perelman — Bop / Langston Hughes — Future is now / Katherine Anne Porter — Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy — Marginal world / Rachel Carson — Notes of a native son / James Baldwin — Brown wasps / Loren Eiseley — Sweet devouring / Eudora Welty — Hundred thousand straightened nails / Donald Hall — Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. — Putting daddy on / Tom Wolfe — Notes on Camp / Susan Sontag — Perfect past / Vladimir Nabokov — Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday — Apotheosis of Martin Luther King / Elizabeth Hardwick — Illumination rounds / Michael Herr — I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou — Lives of a cell / Lewis Thomas — Search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee — Doomed in their sinking / William H. Gass — No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston — Looking for Zora / Alice Walker — Women and honor: some notes on lying / Adrienne Rich — White album / Joan Didion — Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez — Solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich — Total eclipse / Annie Dillard — Drugstore in winter / Cynt
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- Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
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