* indicates new selections. 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. 1. Maya Angelou, Graduation. 2. Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue. 3. Francis Bacon, Of Studies. 4. Russell Baker, Growing Up. 5. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son. 6. Dave Barry, Road Warrior. 7. Mary Catherine Bateson, Attending a World. 8. * Sven Birkerts, Into the Electric Millennium. 9. * Judy Brady, I Want a Wife. 10. Susan Brownmiller, Femininity. 11. Jane Brox, Influenza 1918. 12. Angela Carter, The Wound in the Face. 13. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood. 14. * K. C. Cole, Calculated Risks. 15. Bernard Cooper, Burl's. 16. Aaron Copland, How We Listen. 17. * William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness. 18. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection. 19. Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination. 20. Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd. 21. Joan Didion, On Self-Respect. 22. Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels. 23. Annie Dillard, Jest and Earnest. 24. John Donne, No Man Is an Island. 25. Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write. 26. W. E. B. Du Bois, Of Our Spiritual Striving. 27. Gretel Ehrlich, About Men. 28. Queen Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury. 29. Ralph Ellison, Living with Music. 30. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature. 31. Anne Fadiman, Never Do That to a Book. 32. Benjamin Franklin, Arriving at Perfection. 33. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. 34. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., In the Kitchen. 35. * Atul Gawande, Crimson Tide. 36. * Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point. 37. Ellen Goodman, The Company Man. 38. Mary Gordon, More than Just a Shrine-Ellis Island. 39. Stephen Jay Gould, Women's Brains. 40. William Hazlitt, On the Pleasure of Hating. 41. Edward Hoagland, The Courage of Turtles. 42. Barbara Holland, Naps. 43. Langston Hughes, Salvation. 44. * Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me. 45. * Pico Iyer, Nowhere Man. 46. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence. 47. Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time. 48. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. 49. * Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream. 50. * Barbara Kingsolver, Stone Soup. 51. Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery. 52. Charles Lamb, A Bachelor's Complaint. 53. Robin Tolmach Lakoff, You Are What You Say. 54. D. H. Lawrence, On Ben Franklin's Virtues. 55. Chang-rae Lee, Coming Home Again. 56. Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address. 57. Barry Lopez, The Stone Horse. 58. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Morals of the Prince. 59. Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple. 60. Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. 61. John McPhee, from The Encircled River. 62. H. L. Mencken, Portrait of an Ideal World. 63. * Howard Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. 64. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain. 65. Michel de Montaigne, Of Smells. 66. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language. 67. George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant. 68. Cynthia Ozick, The Seam of the Snail. 69. Alexander Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp. 70. Plato, The Allegory of the Cave. 71. Katherine Anne Porter, The Necessary Enemy. 72. Anna Quindlen, Between the Sexes, A Great Divide. 73. * Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memories of a Bilingual Childhood. 74. Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence. 75. * Luc Sante, What Secrets Tell. 76. Chief Seattle, Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott. 77. Richard Selzer, The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold. 78. * Leonard Shlain, Verbal/Nonverbal. 79. Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination. 80. Susan Sontag, A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? 81. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. 82. Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space. 83. Shelby Steele, On Being Black and Middle Class. 84. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal. 85. * Margaret Talbot, Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart. 86. Amy Tan, Mother Tongue. 87. Lewis Thomas, The Corner of the Eye. 88. Henry David Thoreau, Why I Went to the Woods. 89. James Thurber, University Days. 90. Sojourner Truth, Aren't I a Woman? 91. Mark Twain, Reading the River. 92. Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self. 93. Eudora Welty, from Listening. 94. E. B. White, Once More to the Lake. 95. E. B. White, The Ring of Time. 96. Tom Wolfe, Only One Life. 97. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. 98. Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth. 99. Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women. 100. Richard Wright, Writing and Reading. Credits. Index.
