Essay Samplers: 60 Classic and Contemporary Essays
This collection of essays, articles, speeches, and letters--some written within the past few years, others more than a century old--offers some very good reading indeed. Enjoy these works--and observe the various strategies employed by their authors to describe, narrate, explain, argue, and persuade.
60 Essays: Contents of Essay Samplers
To help you find essays that match your own interests and concerns, the contents of the five Essay Samplers have been organized here by author, title, and theme.
To help you find essays that match your own interests and concerns, the contents of the five Essay Samplers have been organized here by author, title, and theme.
Essay Sampler: Models of Good Writing (Part I)
The authors of the twelve essays gathered here include the most famous American essayist of the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and three of the finest essayists of the 20th century--Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and E. B. White.
The authors of the twelve essays gathered here include the most famous American essayist of the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and three of the finest essayists of the 20th century--Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and E. B. White.
Essay Sampler: Models of Good Writing (Part 2)
A pair of essays by Mark Twain, an account of a prayer revival by H. L. Mencken, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech: these works and others vividly illustrate the principles of effective writing.
A pair of essays by Mark Twain, an account of a prayer revival by H. L. Mencken, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech: these works and others vividly illustrate the principles of effective writing.
Essay Sampler: Models of Good Writing (Part 3)
Read Zora Neale Hurston on "the eternal feminine," Jo Goodwin Parker on poverty, Lewis Lapham on the case for impeaching George Bush: another dozen essays and articles--most published within the past few decades, but one almost 300 years old.
Read Zora Neale Hurston on "the eternal feminine," Jo Goodwin Parker on poverty, Lewis Lapham on the case for impeaching George Bush: another dozen essays and articles--most published within the past few decades, but one almost 300 years old.
Essay Sampler: Models of Good Writing (Part 4)
Read Jack London's first-person account of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, George Orwell's advice on how to halt the decline of the English language, Gore Vidal's proposal for ending drug addiction in the U.S.--and nine other powerful essays by notable British and American writers.
Read Jack London's first-person account of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, George Orwell's advice on how to halt the decline of the English language, Gore Vidal's proposal for ending drug addiction in the U.S.--and nine other powerful essays by notable British and American writers.
Essay Sampler: Models of Good Writing (Part 5)
Our fifth and final essay collection includes classic pieces by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, and Virginia Woolf alongside works by such contemporary writers as Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Stephen King.
Our fifth and final essay collection includes classic pieces by Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, and Virginia Woolf alongside works by such contemporary writers as Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Stephen King.