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Contents Preface
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INTRODUCTION: READING AND WRITING ESSAYS
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History and Context 1 Pleasures of the Essay 5 Types of Essays 7 Reading Essays 9 Reading Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” 10 Writing Essays 15 The Qualities of Good Writing 15 An Overview of the Writing Process 16 Planning 16 Drafting 17 Revising 18 Writing from Reading—An Example 19 Arriving at an Interpretation 30 SUSAN SONTAG’S “A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” 31 MAYA ANGELOU Graduation
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GLORIA ANZALDÚA How to Tame a Wild Tongue W.H. AUDEN Work, Labor, and Play FRANCIS BACON Of Studies RUSSELL BAKER Growing Up
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JAMES BALDWIN Notes of a Native Son
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JAMES BALDWIN Stranger in the Village DAVE BARRY Road Warrior
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MARY CATHERINE BATESON Attending a World 111 SUSAN BROWNMILLER Femininity 126 JANE BROX Influenza 1918
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ANGELA CARTER The Wound in the Face 141 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria 147 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood BERNARD COOPER Burl’s 161 AARON COPLAND How We Listen
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CHARLES DARWIN Natural Selection 179 GUY DAVENPORT The Geography of the Imagination 192 JOAN DIDION Marrying Absurd JOAN DIDION On Self-Respect
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ANNIE DILLARD Living Like Weasels
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ANNIE DILLARD Jest and Earnest
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JOHN DONNE No Man is an Island
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Learning to Read and Write
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W.E.B. DUBOIS Of Our Spiritual Striving 238 ANDRE DUBUS Light of the Long Night
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GRETEL EHRLICH About Men 251 LOREN EISELEY The Flow of the River 256 QUEEN ELIZABETH I Speech to the Troops at Tilbury RALPH ELLISON Living with Music
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature 276 ANNE FADIMAN Never Do That to a Book E.M. FORSTER What I Believe
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Arriving at Perfection
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SIGMUND FREUD The Interpretation of Dreams HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. In the Kitchen 310 ELLEN GOODMAN The Company Man 318
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NADINE GORDIMER Where Do Whites Fit In?
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MARY GORDON More than Just a Shrine—Ellis Island STEPHEN JAY GOULD Women’s Brains
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WILLIAM HAZLITT On the Pleasure of Hating 340 EDWARD HOAGLAND The Courage of Turtles
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BARBARA HOLLAND Naps 359 LANGSTON HUGHES Salvation 364 THOMAS JEFFERSON The Declaration of Independence 368 FRANZ KAFKA Letter to His Father
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JAMAICA KINCAID On Seeing England for the First Time JAMAICA KINCAID The Ugly Tourist
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Letter from Birmingham Jail MAXINE HONG KINGSTON On Discovery 419 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Silence 422 CHARLES LAMB A Bachelor’s Complaint ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF You are What You Say
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D.H. LAWRENCE On Ben Franklin’s Virtues 444 CHANG-RAE LEE Coming Home Again
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Gettysburg Address BARRY LOPEZ The Stone Horse
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NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI The Morals of the Prince NANCY MAIRS On Being a Cripple
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KARL MARX AND FRIEDERICH ENGELS The Communist Manifesto 495 JOHN MCPHEE from “The Encircled River” H.L. MENCKEN Portrait of an Ideal World
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N. SCOTT MOMADAY The Way to Rainy Mountain 519 MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE On Cannibals 526 MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of Smells 539 JOYCE CAROL OATES On Boxing 542 GEORGE ORWELL Politics and the English Language GEORGE ORWELL Shooting an Elephant 569 CYNTHIA OZICK The Seam of the Snail
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ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH The Spider and the Wasp PLATO The Allegory of the Cave KATHERINE ANNE PORTER The Necessary Enemy
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ANNA QUINDLEN Between the Sexes, A Great Divide 599 RICHARD RODRIGUEZ Heading into Darkness Once Again 603 SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS Under the Influence
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CHIEF SEATTLE Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott
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RICHARD SELZER The Masked Marvel’s Last Toehold 625 LESLIE MARMON SILKO Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination 631 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 640 BRENT STAPLES Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space 644 SHELBY STEELE On Being Black and Middle Class JONATHAN SWIFT A Modest Proposal AMY TAN Mother Tongue
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DEBORAH TANNEN Different Words, Different Worlds LEWIS THOMAS The Corner of the Eye
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Why I Went to the Woods
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JAMES THURBER University Days 707 SOJOURNER TRUTH Aren’t I a Woman? 714 MARK TWAIN Reading the River 717 ALICE WALKER Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 721 EUDORA WELTY from “Listening”
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E.B. WHITE Once More to the Lake E.B. WHITE The Ring of Time TOM WOLFE Only One Life
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GEOFFREY WOLFF The Duke of Deception
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A Vindication of the Rights of Women VIRGINIA WOOLF The Death of the Moth
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Professions for Women
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RICHARD WRIGHT Writing and Reading 780 Credits Index