Table of Content
An * indicates a selection that is new to this edition. 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. An Overview of the Writing Process. 1. Maya Angelou, Graduation . 2. Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue . 3. Francis Bacon, Of Studies . 4. Dave Barry, Road Warrior . 5. Susan Brownmiller, Femininity . * 6. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood . 7. Bernard Cooper, Burl''s . 8. Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd . 9. Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels . 10. Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write . 11. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men . 12. Ralph Ellison, Living with Music . * 13. Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection . * 14. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., In the Kitchen . * 15. Atul Gawande, Crimson Tide . * 16. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point . 17. Ellen Goodman, The Company Man . 18. Mary Gordon, More than Just a Shrine - Ellis Island . 19. Stephen Jay Gould, Women''s Brains . * 20. William Hazlitt, On the Pleasures of Hating . 21. Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Tur tles. 22. Langston Hughes, Salvation . * 23. Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man . 24. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time . 25. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail . 26. Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman . * 27. Charles Lamb, A Bachelor''s Complaint . * 28. Chang-Rae Lee, Coming Home Again . 29. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address . 30. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince . 31. Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple . 32. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain . 33. Michel de Montaigne, Of Smells . 34. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant . 35. Cynthia Ozick, The Seam of the Snail . * 36. Alexander Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp . 37. Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence . 38. Richard Selzer, The Masked Marvel''s Last Toehold . 39. Susan Sontag, A Woman''s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? 40. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions . 41. Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space . * 42. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal . 43. Amy Tan, Mother Tongue. 44. James Thurber, University Days . 45. Sojourner Truth, Aren''t I a Woman ? 46. Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self. 47. E.B. White, Once More to the Lake . 48. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 49. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth. 50. Richard Wright, Writing and Reading.