The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892552417 ISBN 13: 9780892552412

Publisher: Persea Books, 2000

Synopsis

Included in the collection are essays by George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Bruno Bettelheim, Eudora Welty, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan Didion, Edward Abbey, Leo Marx, I. F. Stone, Pico Iyer, Amy Tan, Lewis Thomas, Barbara Kingsolver, Ann S. Causey, Carl Sagan, Ellen Ullman, and Opal Palmer Adisa. Arranged in chronological order, each selection begins with a note about the author and the essay that follows. The introduction discusses the history of the essay form and the reasons for its special vitality.

The Eloquent Essay engages the intellect and the passions, and offers the general reader the pleasures of cogent written discourse. At the same time, its carefully selected essays--each one superbly written and accessible--are well suited to study and discussion.

About this title

About the Author:

John Loughery is the author of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Sloan: Painter and Rebel and has edited the anthologies First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth, Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories, and The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction. He teaches English at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City.

Synopsis:

An anthology of seventeen non-fiction essays provide examples of personal narratives, arguments, and digressive discourse, and reveal insight into such subjects as cattle grazing, the death of Socrates, and becoming a doctor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Persea Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0892552417
• ISBN 13: 9780892552412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Loughery John