The best American essays of the century / (Record no. 132100)
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) | PS 688 .B47 2000 |
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| Title | The best American essays of the century / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Joyce Carol Oates, editor ; Robert Atwan, coeditor ; with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Boston, [MA] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Houghton Mifflin Company, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2000. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 596 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical notes (p. [569]-590). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Foreword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Joyce Carol Oates -- Corn-pone opinions / Mark Twain -- Of the coming of John / W.E.B. Du Bois -- A law of acceleration / Henry Adams -- Stickeen / John Muir -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- The handicapped / Randolph Bourne -- Coatesville / John Jay Chapman -- The devil baby at Hull-house / Jane Addams -- Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- Pamplona in July / Ernest Hemingway -- The hills of Zion / H.L. Mencken -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- The old stone house / Edmund Wilson -- What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them / Gertrude Stein -- The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sex Ex Machina / James Thurber -- The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright -- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 / James Agee -- The 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 -- The future is now / Katherine Anne Porter -- Artists in uniform / Mary McCarthy -- The marginal world / Rachel Carson -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- The brown wasps / Loren Eiseley -- A sweet devouring / Eudora Welty -- A 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 -- The way to Rainy Rountain / N. Scott Momaday -- The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Illumination rounds / Michael Herr -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- The lives of a cell / Lewis Thomas -- The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee -- The 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 -- The white album / Joan Didion -- Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- A drugstore in winter / Cynthia Ozick -- Okinawa: the bloodiest battle of all / William Manchester -- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland -- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- Life with daughters: watching the miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- The disposable rocket / John Updike -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- Biographical notes -- Appendix: Notable twentieth-century American literary nonfiction. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Essays. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Oates, Joyce Carol, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1938- |
| Relationship | edt. |
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| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Atwan, Robert. |
| Relationship | edt. |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Storms Research Center | Storms Research Center | Main Collection | 10/28/2025 | PS 688 .B47 2000 | 98614985 | 10/28/2025 | 10/28/2025 | Book |