The Best American Essays of the Century

Author:   Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University) ,  Professor of English Robert Atwan (Seton Hall University)
Publisher:   Turtleback Books
ISBN:  

9781606869826


Pages:   596
Publication Date:   10 October 2001
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Format:   Hardback
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"This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ""Letter from Birmingham Jail,"" these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, ""into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we've come from, and who we are, and where we are going."" Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard."

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Author:   Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University) ,  Professor of English Robert Atwan (Seton Hall University)
Publisher:   Turtleback Books
Imprint:   Turtleback Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781606869826


ISBN 10:   1606869825
Pages:   596
Publication Date:   10 October 2001
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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