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The Signet Book of American Essays

Author : M. Jerry Weiss
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451530219
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Signet Book of American Essays written by M. Jerry Weiss and published by Signet. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Essays by Benjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mark Twain • Erma Bombeck • Abraham Lincoln • John F. Kennedy • and More... These are Americans who had something important to say—and said it in powerful, convincing ways. A compendium of commentary, criticism, and oratory excellence from throughout the nation’s history, The Signet Book of American Essays is a perfect resource for those searching for the most timeless essays ever conceived by America’s notable scientists, philosophers, politicians, and writers. From the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin to the outspoken empowerment of Gloria Steinem, from the biting satire of Mark Twain to the grave seriousness of Franklin D. Roosevelt, this collection offers the opportunity to learn the subtle arts of persuasion and rational argument as exemplified in these great American dissertations crafted by some of the country’s most brilliant and intriguing citizens.

The Best American Essays of the Century

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays of the Century written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.

Sacagawea's Nickname

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170991
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Sacagawea's Nickname written by Larry McMurtry and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 11 essays, all originally published in "The New York Review of Books," McMurtry brings his unique narrative gift and dry humor to a variety of western topics.

Untamed and Unabashed

Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321362
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Untamed and Unabashed written by Regina Barreca and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them. The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers-but not men readers-would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers. Barreca asserts that much of women's comic play has to do with power and its systematic misappropriation, allowing women to gain perspective by ridiculing the implicit insanities of a patriarchal culture. Using detailed persuasive new readings of various works of each of her chosen authors, she shows how the straightjacket of conventional femininity is challenged, confronted, and finally, thrown off. This volume demonstrates that comedy can effectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them. This kind of comedy, which is at the heart of Untamed and Unabashed, terrifies those who hold order dear. It should.

The Shamer's Signet

Author : Lene Kaaberbol
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082173
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Shamer's Signet written by Lene Kaaberbol and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation originally published: Great Britain: Hodder Children's, 2003.

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553901966
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national literature.”

The Autobiography and Other Writings

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451469887
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography and Other Writings written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country’s survival. Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time. Edited by L. Jesse Lemich With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson and an Afterword by Carla Mulford

Novels and Essays

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 9780940450400
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Novels and Essays written by Frank Norris and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 33.

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101219505
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine written by Thomas Paine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy. Upon publication, Thomas Paine’s modest pamphlet Common Sense shocked and spurred the foundling American colonies of 1776 to action. It demanded freedom from Britain—when even the most fervent patriots were only advocating tax reform. Paine’s daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and, consequently, the Revolutionary War. For “without the pen of Paine,” as John Adams said, “the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Later, his impassioned defense of the French Revolution, Rights of Man, caused a worldwide sensation. Napoleon, for one, claimed to have slept with a copy under his pillow, recommending that “a statue of gold should be erected to [Paine] in every city in the universe.” Here in one volume, these two complete works are joined with selections from Pain's other major essays, “The Crisis,” “The Age of Reason,” and “Agrarian Justice.” Includes a Foreword by Jack Fruchtman Jr. and an Introduction by Sidney Hook

Adios, Strunk and White

Author : Gary Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Adios, Strunk and White written by Gary Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sympathy and Antipathy

Author : James Allan
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sympathy and Antipathy written by James Allan and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator, thus escaping subjectivity, has a long history. Jeremy Bentham, attempting to find such a standard, opted for utilitarianism, which at least provided an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong - everything else collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and antipathy. The author of this book shares Bentham's views about sympathy and antipathy and shows that the principle is alive and well in legal philosophy today

The Federalist Papers

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528785878
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.

Writing First with Readings

Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312542569
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Writing First with Readings written by Laurie G. Kirszner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling authors and veteran college writing instructors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell believe that students learn to write best when they use their own writing as a starting point. In Writing First with Readings: Practice in Context, designed for the paragraph to essay course, Kirszner and Mandell take seriously the ideas and expressive abilities of developmental students, as well as their need to learn the rules of writing and grammar. Visual writing prompts that open every chapter get students writing immediately. By moving frequently between their own writing, writing models and instruction, and workbook-style mastery exercises, students get constant reinforcement of the skills they are learning. Thoughtful chapters on college success, research, and critical reading, along with high-interest essays, round out the text, making it the perfect introduction to college writing. Read the preface.

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Library of America James Baldw
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) written by James Baldwin and published by Library of America James Baldw. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronology. Notes.

The American Essay in the American Century

Author : Ned Stuckey-French
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 082621925X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The American Essay in the American Century written by Ned Stuckey-French and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essay—that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses—Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the “death of the essay,” claiming it was too traditional to survive the era’s growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of America’s expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the “magazine revolution,” giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. White’s work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the “death of the essay,” proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.

The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together in one volume editions of all the plays, poems, and sonnets originally published as individual paperbacks in the New American Library's Signet Classic Shakespeare series. With a General Introduction by Professor Barnet, introductions to the individual plays by the contributing editors.

The Federalist Papers

Author : James Madison
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by James Madison and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between 1787 and 1788 and were published under the pen name "Publius" in New York newspapers. The essays made the case for ratifying the proposed United States Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.