| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 192 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Collection of essays originally published 1931-1998. |
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"A Karen and Michael Braziller Book." |
| Contents |
A hanging / George Orwell -- The guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden -- Writing and analyzing a story / Eudora Welty -- The ignored lesson of Anne Frank / Bruno Bettelheim -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Georgia O'Keefe / Joan Didion -- The cowboy and his cow / Edward Abbey -- Huck at 100 / Leo Marx -- In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer -- When free speech was first condemned : the trial of Socrates reconsidered / I.F. Stone -- Mother tongue |
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/ Amy Tan -- Becoming a doctor / Lewis Thomas -- How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life / Barbara Kingsolver -- Is hunting ethical? / Ann S. Causey -- The fine art of baloney detection / Carl Sagan -- Space is numeric / Ellen Ullman -- Lying in the tall grasses, eating cane / Opal Palmer Adisa. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 20th century.
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English essays -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Loughery, John.
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| ISBN |
0892552417 alkaline paper |
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