The Best American Essays of the Century by Format: Hardcover with Dust JacketPublished by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 Fifty Five Unforgettable Essays By The Finest American Writers Of The Twentieth Century. 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 / Mi Joyce Carol Oates, Editor ; Robert Atwan, Coeditor ; With An Introduction By Joyce Carol Oates. Includes Bibliographical References.
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